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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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

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