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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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