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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
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
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
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

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