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A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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