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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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

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