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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time

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