A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

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‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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Faith without doubt is addiction

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Realism can break a writer's heart.

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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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