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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself

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