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| | Pacifica Graduate Institute | Robert Romanyshyn | Poetry: Dark Light |
 | | Poetry, I believe, is born in this gesture of the backward glance, a gesture that re-turns you to the familiar world that you have left, so that you may re-gard it again, see it again, as if for the last time, and as if for the first. |
 | | In this respect, poetry, and the writing of poetry, is for me the work of remembering the true home from whence we have come and which we have forgotten, a supremely moral act that restores to the quotidian world its sacred depths that are veiled by our common wish to be ordinarily happy. |
 | | Poetry, and the writing of poetry, is watered in the dark pools of melancholy. |
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