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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet

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