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" To speak a thing one can’t conceive.
To live in the instant before this instant is.
To feel infinities going dark for this one light along your thigh.

— Christian Wiman, from “After a Lecture with my Love,” Survival is a Style: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020) "

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Christian Wiman quote : To speak a thing one can’t conceive.<br />To live in the instant before this instant is.<br />To feel infinities going dark for this one light along your thigh.<br /><br />— Christian Wiman, from “After a Lecture with my Love,” <i>Survival is a Style: Poems</i> (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020)