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    “Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
    —14th-century English proverb.

    “This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
    Look at it talking to you.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)