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Cohen  
Leonard Cohen

 
"Gift"

(1958)

 

     You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
     "This is not silence
this is another poem"
and you would hand it back to me.

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