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Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.

— Louise Glück Descending Figure (1980)

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.

Meadowlands (1996)

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

Ararat (1990)

I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.

The Seven Ages (2001)

The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech never convincingly substitutes.

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