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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

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