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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

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