"It was offered to me by name"
Bunting, Frost, Martin, Kelly, Merwin, Pliny
Basil Bunting:
If you sit in silence, if you empty your head of all the things you usually waste your brain thinking about, there is some faint hope that something, no doubt out of the unconscious or where you will, will appear—just as George Fox would have called it. the Voice of God; and that will bring you, if not nearer God, at any rate nearer your own built-in certainties.
Carol Frost:
Agnes Martin:
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Robert Kelly:
W.S. Merwin:
Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder:
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