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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
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
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 measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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 learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy

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