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Book cover for Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
On the beach, at dawn: four small stones clearly hugging each other. How many kinds of love might there be in the world, and how many formations might they make
Ryan
incredible metaphoric leap here
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Jim Harrison
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. ”
Jim Harrison

John Barth
“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.”
John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor

Thomas Pynchon
“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

James Joyce
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

Baruch Spinoza
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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