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This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career.
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“We prove, we do not explain, our birth.”
“Omissions are not accidents.”
“I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.”
“With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!”
“One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.”
“To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.”
“The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.”
“Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.”
“Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.”
“Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”
“he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.”
“The mind is an enchanting thing.”
“All are / naked, none is safe.”
“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!”
“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”
“While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.”
“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”
“There never was a war that was not inward.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
“Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”