Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Joseph Brodsky
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  2. For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

  3. ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  4. ... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....

  5. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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