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What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

John Burnside

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Was mich zum Schreiben veranlasst, ist der Rhythmus der Welt um mich herum - natürlich die Rhythmen der Sprache, aber auch des Landes, des Windes, des Himmels und anderer Leben. Vor den Worten kommt der Rhythmus - das scheint mir essentiell zu sein.

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