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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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

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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