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1 " And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they? "
― Franz Wright , God's Silence
2 " literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry. "
3 " The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. "
4 " So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains. "
5 " But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy? "
6 " The road to Emmaus is this world. "
7 " Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- "
8 " I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing. "