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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing

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