"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

Life, Poetry, Fact, Vocation

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"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

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"Hate is hostility."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

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"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

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"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."

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"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."

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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

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