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I am my mother’s caresses, and the serene kindness with which my father calmly guided me; I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I’ve
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“Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.”
― Chicago Poems
― Chicago Poems
“Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:”
― Chicago Poems
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:”
― Chicago Poems
“But, however much life teaches you that nothing lasts, it is still a shock when it disappears. When the man you love with every fibre starts returning to the stars, an atom at a time.”
― The Last Devil to Die
― The Last Devil to Die
“Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance.”
― Gemina
― Gemina
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