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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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