There was a line in one of my father’s poems that I tried now to recall. It was about how we work to reject the realities right in front of us. It wasn’t a great poem, but it was better than most of them. It was one that I believed should
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“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
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“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.”
― Sonny's Blues
― Sonny's Blues
“To want is to have a weakness.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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