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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.

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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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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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Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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