The thought that something we cannot see, of unsurpassable skill and unimaginable form, exists in the back room’s locked safe – isn’t this, for any artist, for any person, an irresistible hope, beautiful and disturbing as the distant baying of Thoreau’s lost hound that tells us, not least, that the mysteries of distance are endless?
-Jane Hirshfield
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