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What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. he cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.
-Michael Ondaatje
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What He Would Say, He Cannot Say

Michael Ondaatje
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. he cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.
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