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ClassicsW. S. Merwin
Heart as we say meaning it literally and you do hear it when we speak for the voice addressing you is your own though we know now that the you we are speaking to is not the person we imagine yet we go on telling you day after day of the person we imagine ourselves to be forgetting as we tell you learning even from joy but forgetting and you hear who is speaking you hear it all though you do not listen
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Heart as we say meaning it literally and you do hear it when we speak for the voice addressing you is your own though we know now that the you we are speaking to is not the person we imagine yet we go on telling you day after day of the person we imagine ourselves to be forgetting as we tell you learning even from joy but forgetting and you hear who is speaking you hear it all though you do not listen
Classics
W. S. Merwin
1927 - Present/American