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The silence that precedes the poem may be intoxicating

Deep silence usually precedes the writing of a poem. And some of that silence usually enters into the poem. That’s the difference between poetry and rhetoric, public-speaking competitions. The silence that precedes the poem may be intoxicating, it may seize the world’s wholeness more completely than the poem that emerges later.

Adam Zagajewski

Slight Exaggeration: 

An Essay

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Well, look then, feel then.


Virginia Woolf 

from 

To 

The Lighthouse

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