Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@HeaneyDaily "One feels in Philoctetes a more general and fundamental idea: the conception of superior strength as inseparable from disability." - Edmund Wilson, Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow.

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Quoted by3/ Our wounds are our gifts, the men say. Our defects are where the greatest glories are manifested, they say. Shadow work. Grief work. Humbling work.Quoted by@crossmansusanna @holdengraber