May. 8, 2011 at 2:40am with 69 notes
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All poetry is fragment: it is shaped by its breakages, at every turn. It is the very art of turnings, toward the white frame of the page, toward the unsung, toward the vacancy made visible, the wordlessness in which our words are couched.
— Heather McHugh, from “Broken, as in English: What We Make of Fragments”  (via septembrist)

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