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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
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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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch

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