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“The Hermit Crab
Once I looked inside
the darkness
of a sheel folded like a pastry,
and there was a fancy face-
or almost a face-
it turned away
and frisked up its brawny forearms
so quickly
against the light
and my looking in
I scarcely had time to see it,
gleaming
under the pure white roof
of old calcium
When I set it down, it hurried
along the tideline
of the sea,
which was slashing along as usual,
shouting and hissing
toward the future,
turning its back
with every tide on the past,
leaving the shore littered
ever morning
with ornaments of death-
what a pearly rubble
from which to choose a house
like a white flower-
and what a rebellion
to leap into it
and hold on,
connecting everything,
the past to the future-
which is of course the miracle-
which is the only argument there is
against the sea.”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Once I looked inside
the darkness
of a sheel folded like a pastry,
and there was a fancy face-
or almost a face-
it turned away
and frisked up its brawny forearms
so quickly
against the light
and my looking in
I scarcely had time to see it,
gleaming
under the pure white roof
of old calcium
When I set it down, it hurried
along the tideline
of the sea,
which was slashing along as usual,
shouting and hissing
toward the future,
turning its back
with every tide on the past,
leaving the shore littered
ever morning
with ornaments of death-
what a pearly rubble
from which to choose a house
like a white flower-
and what a rebellion
to leap into it
and hold on,
connecting everything,
the past to the future-
which is of course the miracle-
which is the only argument there is
against the sea.”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?”
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"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?”
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“No matter how you describe a protagonist, each reader has a personal vision of that character. Leave room for the reader's imagination.”
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