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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Leonard Cohen

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy

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