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The elusive embrace

"This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken." — Octavio Paz — Ilya Kaminsky (@ilya_poet) January 16, 2019

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(Did she say, “Thank you?”)

“We were together. I forget the rest.” — Walt Whitman — Ilya Kaminsky (@ilya_poet) January 2, 2019 To more of the same.  knife | fork | book  

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“and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year—“ ~ Nietzsche, The Gay Science, ‘Sanctus Januarius’ pic.twitter.com/spD93VXJ6o — Paul Holdengraber (@holdengraber) January 1, 2019 “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the […]

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How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. W.G. Sebald — Ilya Kaminsky (@ilya_poet) November 4, 2018