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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

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He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

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We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.

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Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.

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