“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.”
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“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
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“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
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“I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.”
― Astonishments: Selected Poems
― Astonishments: Selected Poems
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