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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

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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
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
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
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
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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

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