Tuesday, October 19, 2010

News at Eleven: To be human is probably to be

conscious of time in a way that dogs are free of--but I love to, at least for a little while, slip that harness and let myself go into the edgeless world of animal time! That's probably an aspect of the relationship between lyric poets and people we term "insane"--we both lose our identities on a regular basis.

from The Day: 5 questions with Mark Doty

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