"I come to make song, after the tears. And even if a choir of men sprayed my tongue with silence, poetry will come, with liberating voice, to make my song fall from the trees and reach the most deeply buried abysses of those tears that the child lent me when crying himself into life.Because my infant song is stronger than man’s tears, and it could even conquer me robbing the need of tears from the sun and the wind."
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"New Songs for After the Tears", from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)
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