Quote by W.S. Merwin
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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The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag

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A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. – Homer

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And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. – Bill Knott, “(End) of Summer (1966)” (Thanks, Laurie)

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Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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