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“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― The City & the City
― The City & the City
“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
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I study your obscure language.”
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“This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.”
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the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.”
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“I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.”
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
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