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The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nature, but to say the things that cannot be said about it.
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1843)

4d ago

I conceive a man's body as a sort of fiery mist enmeshed in the cage of the skeleton, and mostly resulting from the circulation of the blood.

4w ago

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Thursday Poem

But hang on here while we make the turn into the final six where all will be resolved, where longing and heartache will find an end, where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen, take off those crazy medieval tights, blow out the lights, and come at last to bed.

2mo ago

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