"When I hate so much / that my eyes no longer close, / when I love so much / that I move, eyes open / close, far, without effort / not naming the country, the wind's evil"
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Mirkka Rekola
Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 β 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays.
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