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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

Leonard Cohen

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
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
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
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
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
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

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