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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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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves

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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