“Exile, in the words of Wallace Stevens, is “a mind of winter” in which the pathos of summer and autumn as much as the potential of spring are nearby but unobtainable. Perhaps this is another way of saying that a life of exile moves according to a different calendar.”
Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (via residueatlas)

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