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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Czeslaw Milosz

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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Earth Forget Reason Sparkle Suffering Yourself
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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Circle Day End Repair World
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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Attribute Description Desire Eyes Himself See
I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Friendship Myself Time
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Difference Fall Love
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Echo Mountain Poetry
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Born Family Poet Writing
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Failure Myself Reach Try
Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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Distant Love Way Yourself
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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Acceptance Defect Endurance Human Introduction Material Oneself Passive
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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General Oneself Poetry Purpose Reminder
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Growth Small Truth Yourself
I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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Myself Skills Strength Trace Wisdom Young
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Live Shadow Strength
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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God Growth Hero Hurt Transformation
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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Belief Betrayal Death Judgement People Theory Thinking True

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

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