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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

Leonard Cohen

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Attachment Old Philosophy
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Choice Deep Love Myself
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
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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
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
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
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

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

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