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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
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
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music

I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.

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