"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."
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"Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan"
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"It takes practice to shave the skin off the light."
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"I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening."
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"When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in."
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"I never had much education in English poetry as such."
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"You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear."
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"You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough."
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"Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench."
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"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."
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"The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language."
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"You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying."
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"I never really got over the fun of making letters."
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"Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty."
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