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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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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954

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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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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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