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And laying aside the pen, dipped
Not in tears’ volatile liquid
But in the black ink of the heart’s well,
To read again what the hand has written
To the many voices’ quiet dictation.

“Everyone was talking about ‘the unstoppable stampede into chaos’, …. and the ‘approaching catastrophe’ without a clear notion of … these frightening words, since, he surmised, this epidemic of fear was not born out of … increasing certainty of disaster but of an infection of the imagination whose susceptibility to its own terrors might eventually lead to an actual catastrophe…” (95-96)

Starting tonight so the Swedish Academy does the right thing. Give the Nobel Prize to the Hungarian prophet!

Can’t stop laughing

Totally stunned when I read “Emblems of Conduct.” A stellar poem. Then I read he plagiarized it! Sad.

"What have we made? What are we making?
And who or what made us that we should make

such things as we do and did? We grow smaller. We break things.
Then turn to each other and beg for what no human can give."