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Jane Kenyon
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“I am the one whose love / overcomes you, already with you / when you think to call my name ...”
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“Time to head home. I wait / until we're nearly out to the main road / to put him back on the leash, and he / — the designated optimist — / imagines to the end that he is free.”
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“If it's darkness / we're having, / let it be extravagant.”
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“Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.”
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“Searching for God is the first thing and the last, / but in between such trouble, and such pain.”
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“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it.”
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“My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.”
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“[Poetry:] ... the inside of one person speaking to the inside of another.”
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“I am food on the prisoner's plate ... / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden ... / the stone step, / the latch, and the working hinge.”
Jane Kenyon, U.S. poet, translator
(1947 - 1995)