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Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

Seamus Heaney
Language, Impulse, Secure
Seamus Heaney (2014). “Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.27, Macmillan
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.