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We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

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The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love. ” from “Memoriam

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When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

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Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [. . . ] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [. . . ] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

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I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

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I see that I must give what I most need.

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Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.

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