John Burnside
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
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When our bodies are sick and people extend...What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality...Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain...One should believe in marriage as in the immortality...Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going...When I admire the wonders of a sunset...