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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Leonard Cohen

Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
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
Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Break Up Dream Lie Relationship
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
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
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
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
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
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
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
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
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

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

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