"I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story."

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Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.

— Jane Hirshfield