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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing

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