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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.

Roberto Bolano

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Happiness Knowledge Pleasure Question Reading
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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Plain Risk Run Subject Truth
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Death Passage Reality Tradition
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments

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