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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
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
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean 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
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
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
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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time

Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

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