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

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The first step… shall be to lose the way. – Galway Kinnell

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The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right. – Author unknown

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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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