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“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”
― Martin Buber, Paths in Utopia

“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.”
― Dan Chiasson, One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America