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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
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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

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