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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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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. – Galway Kinnell

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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

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