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we don't have so much time in this world, but we carry on as though we expect eternal life.  in that regard, that snail has progressed further.

it is when you are most burdened by duties that your desire to write and make poetry is at its strongest.

--olav h. hauge, translated from the norwegian by olav grinde  [luminous spaces: selected poems & journals; white pine press; 2016]