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'When I write poems, I need to be near grass that no one else sees, as in this spot, where I sit for an hour under the cottonwood. The long grass has fallen over it until it flows. Whatever I am....' Robert Bly - Grass from Two Years

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Almost ten hours of Cassirer, excellent. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1 Language https://t.co/RonFYP7slJ

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'One must have patience and infinite care and let the light sound, whether of spider's delicate feet on a leaf or the chuckle of water in some irrelevant drain-pipe, unfold too. Nothing is to be rejected in fear of horror.' Virginia Woolf - The Waves

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'Well, the wings of time pass, the black wings, And the light is not adumbrated, or dampened down - Like splendor, there is no end to it Inside the imagination, then inside of that, wind-beat, light of light, and even into the darkness.' Charles Wright - Littlefoot

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Žarko Radaković & Scott Abbott: We - On Friendship. https://t.co/wLaWzruZ3l please go read https://t.co/GHAxje6Z8W

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'A failure to understand "modern poetry" and its processes (...) is a failure to understand any poetry, since the reading of poetry is not an antiquarian study, but an immersion in eternal contemporaneousness.' Hayden Carruth - The Anti-Poet All Told

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'All we are is representation, what we appear to be & are, & are not, And representation is all we remember, Something hesitating & looking back & caught for a moment.' Larry Levis - Elegy For Whatever Had A Pattern In It

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'We sit on the steps as nothing happens. It's also impossible to say that we feel anything like sorrow. Anxiety and frenzy (two younger nations) have given way to classical restraint.' Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New & Selected Poems

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'We’re still completely, totally alive; [....] There’s still enough of swallows and of swifts, The comet’s not yet made us lose our minds, But draws, with its pragmatic, purple ink, The form of stars and comet tails.' Fragment uit Voronezh Notebooks Osip Mandelstam

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'It is the flowers in the soul of the person who put them there that makes us happy and enliven our hearts.' Sheila Heti - Pure Colour

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