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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.

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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
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Love World Yourself
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
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love
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
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy
Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Magic Self Love
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
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
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
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Light Philosophy

I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.

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