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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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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom

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

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