All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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