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In my end is my beginning.

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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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
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
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
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
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
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself

In my end is my beginning.

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