Michael Bamford

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Blaise Pascal
“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Louise Glück
“Why do you treasure your voice
when to be one thing
is to be next to nothing?”
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Louise Glück
“it is
a bitter thing to be
the disposable animal,
a bitter thing.”
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Louise Glück
“even here, even at the beginning of love,
her hand leaving his face makes
an image of departure
and they think
they are free to overlook
this sadness.”
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Jane Hirshfield
“Robinson Jeffers longed throughout his life ]for a poetry of 'pure undoubtable being'], but could not bear to relinquish his moral connection with the humanity he continually condemned for its self-centeredness.”
Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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