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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: “I dwell in possibility,” “One need not be a chamber to be haunted,” “The brain is wider than the sky,” and “I fit for them” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.

HarperCollins Publishers: “The Man Watching” [excerpt of 18 I.] from Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpts from pp. 3, 7, 67, 68, 72 [550 words] from The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Copyright © 1989 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC: “Verse 69,” from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition by Lao Tzu, translated by Jonathan Star, copyright © 2001 by Jonathan Star. Used by permission of Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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