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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
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

I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.

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