As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know th — Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know th — Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know th — Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know th — Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know th — Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
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As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.

— Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
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