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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up ...more

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Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetr...more

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. W...more

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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring ...more