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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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose

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