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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Feeling Forever Himself Life Man Moments Realize
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Anxiety Beyond Inspirational Invitation Myself Universe

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