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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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
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

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