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

Leonard Cohen

When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
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
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
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
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
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
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
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself

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