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1 " You drank some darknessand became visible. "
― Tomas Tranströmer , The Half-Finished Heaven
2 " The storm puts its lips to the house and blows to make a sound. "
3 " and the house senses the constellation of nails holding its walls together. "
4 " (where all the died-away footsteps are lying like sunken leaves in a pond) "
5 " A more serious storm is moving over us all. It puts its lips to our soul and blows to make a sound. We’re afraid the storm will blow everything inside us away. "
6 " We got ready and showed our home. The visitor thought: you live well. The slum must be inside you. "
7 " It was Rilke who created the metaphor that poets are “bees of the invisible.” Making honey of the invisible suggests that the artist remains close to his own earthly history, but moves as well toward the spiritual and the invisible. "