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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
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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Evening Life Morning Myself
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time

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