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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

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
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Care Character Friendship
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Afraid Expectation Life Live Myself Place Risk
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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