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67 noteS In “In Every Life,” the line “In every life there’s a moment or two” is lifted from a poem by Louise Glück. In “Try to,” “Try to love the mutilated world” is from a poem by Adam Zagajewski; “My heart is in the east and I / am in the uttermost west” is from the twelfth-century poet Yehuda Halevi; “Shall there be no more cakes and ale” is from Twelfth Night. In “Church,” the idea that “a living dog is better than a dead lion” is lifted from Ecclesiastes. “The Arts” adapts a remark by the painter Alice Neel. “What Is Now Seen Was Once Only Imagined” is one of William Blake’s Proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. ...

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