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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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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
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
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
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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