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Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Mind
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Older
Minds
Listening
Beauty
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