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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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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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Myself Photograph Suffering
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer

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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