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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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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
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
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

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