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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
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
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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 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

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