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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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The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine? – Terri Guillemets

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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. – Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

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