"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

God, Power, Mercy

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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

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"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."

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