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"I tear out what I want" - From John Cheever's...
JOHN CHEEVER
I use what I love, and this can be anything. Cavalcanti, Dante, Frost, anybody. My library is terribly disordered and disorganized; I tear out what I want. I don’t think that a writer has any responsibility to view literature as a continuous process. I believe that very little of literature is immortal. I’ve known books in my lifetime to serve beautifully, and then to lose their...
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Nobody | Nicanor Parra
Nobody | Nicanor Parra (translated by Miller Williams) I can’t get to sleep Someone is making the curtains move. I get up. There’s nobody there. Probably the moonlight. Tomorrow I have to get up early And I can’t get to sleep: I have the feeling someone’s knocking at the door. I get up again. I throw it wide open: The air hits me full in the face. But the...
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