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Time is no straight line but it resembles rather a labyrinth and if you press yourself to the wall in the right way, you can hear hastened footsteps and voices. You hear yourself pass by, on the other side. —Tomas Tranströmer

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that ever happened to you. —Donald Hall

Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted. —Louise Glück, RIP

The Tortoise Trainer Osman Hamdi Bey, vers.1906 <the most famous painting by an Ottoman/Turkish artist, is a self portrait of Osman Hamdi, a well-educated man but a product of a bygone era, in a somber pose as he's destined to fail in his quest to educate his "turtles">