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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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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
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time

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