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Then one day I was walking along Tinker Creek thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame. I stood on
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“In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.”
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“No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”
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“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
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“I've wanted to write about them for a long while,
but it's a tricky subject,
always put off for later
and perhaps worthy of a better poet,
even more stunned by the world than I.
But time is short. I write.”
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but it's a tricky subject,
always put off for later
and perhaps worthy of a better poet,
even more stunned by the world than I.
But time is short. I write.”
― Here
“People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.”
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