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Not For The.

"If pressed to compare
this brief life, I might declare:
It's like the boat
that crossed this morning's harbor,
leaving no mark on the world."

--The Priest Mansei
translated by: Sam Hamill via @evecastle.bsky.social

"It's a regular brute of a Bee!"

"And still more labyrinthine buds the rose" --Sordello

"...Baldwin, in an unpublished essay, contrasted the milieu of nineteenth-century literati with that of the American writer of the twentieth century, which places him 'in competition with a language whose entire function is to disturb no-one, and to reveal nothing'."