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In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

Mary Ruefle
Numbers, Equal, Exceed
Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.1, Wave Books
In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.