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We are asleep with compasses in our hands. - W.S. Merwin

We are asleep with compasses in our hands. – W.S. Merwin

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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. – Author Unknown

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. – William Wordsworth

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