A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small whole species disappear and are replaced.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness that darkness flung me Is worthless as ignorance nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
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