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“Stir of time, the sequence
returning upon itself, branching
a new way. To suffer, pains, hope.
The attention
lives in it as a poem lives or a song
going under the skin of memory.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)