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The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.

The powerful are always lied to since the weak are always driven to panic

Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The love of form is a love of endings.

I pretended indifference ... even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

They sat far apart
deliberately, to experience, daily,
the sweetness of seeing each other across
great distance.

The sound of the sea - just memory now.

Why do I not forget?

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

Tell me this is the future,
I won't believe you.
Tell me I'm living,
I won't believe you.

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

I have no concern with widening audience.

I'm like the child who buries
her head in the pillow
so as not to see, the child who tells herself
that light causes sadness -

Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

You're not a creature in body.
You exist as the stars exist,
participating in their stillness, their immensity.

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those;
they govern me.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...

How can I know you love me
unless I see you grieve over me?

The air had become heavy, not because it had greater substance, but because there was nothing left to breathe.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

And he lay on the cold floor of the study watching the wind stirring the pages, mixing the written and unwritten, the end among them.

Whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice.

You saved me, you should remember me.

And then, suddenly, something is over.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

crying yes risk joy

Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.

What was difficult
was the travel, which,
on arrival, is forgotten.

To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I thought my life was over and my heart was broken.

Then I moved to Cambridge.

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.