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" How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren’t, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames? "

Galway Kinnell


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Galway Kinnell quote : How many nights must it take<br />one such as me to learn<br />that we aren’t, after all, made<br />from that bird that flies out of its ashes,<br />that for us<br />as we go up in flames, our one work<br />is<br />to open ourselves, to be<br />the flames?