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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Leonard Cohen

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
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Book Hate Library Myself
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love Victim Yourself

Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

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