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The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped ...more

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From the union of power and money,from the union of power and secrecy,from the union of government and science,from the union of government and art,fr...more

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A tree forms itself in answerto its place and the light.Explain it how you will, the onlything explainable will beyour explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

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I’ve come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo long…To the abandoned fieldsthe trees returned and grew.They stand and grow. Time comesT...more

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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of eac...more

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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill chil...more

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I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our...more

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Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death, it still seemed to be something th...more

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Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it takesto satisfy the mindand bring it to its rest.

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Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering...more

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I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me t...more

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The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s live...more