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"Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful."
"The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come."
"I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat."
"Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this."
"The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness."
"The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic."
"Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give."
"So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light."
"In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue."
"The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument."
"The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me."
"Applause is the beginning of abuse"
"So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn."
"Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed."
"As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made."