"Your voice is the listened-for music"
Anonymous, Brooks, Davis, Stern, Yau, Milosz, Dickinson
Anonymous, c. 1530:
Gwendolyn Brooks:
Lydia Davis:
Gerald Stern:
John Yau:
Czeslaw Milosz (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass):
Emily Dickinson:
The Heart has many Doors — / I can but knock — / For any sweet “Come in” / Impelled to hark — / Not saddened by repulse, / Repast to me / That somewhere, there exists, / Supremacy —
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