Avignon/transport

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“he was sitting
and saying over
those green words
Laura and laurel
written in Avignon ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)