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Whatever I was able
to acquire in my life

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by way of acts visible to all.

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That is to win my
own transparence

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I owe to a kind of special
courage poetry gave me.

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To be wind for the kite
and kite for the wind

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even when the sky is missing.

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I'm not playing with words.

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I mean, the moment
you discover being

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written in an instant when you
can open it and make it last.

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When, in fact, sorrow becomes
grace, and grace, angel.

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Joy alone and sister joy
with white, long pleats

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over the void, a void full
of bird dew, basil breeze,

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and hiss of resonant paradise.

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I believe this was the
first poet I ever read.

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I was about 14, and I'd like
to read some of the poems

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that I read at that time.

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