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From Jane Hirshfield's "After Long Silence" ("After," Bloodaxe Books):
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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