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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and h...more

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At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous descripti...more

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I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence ...more

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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was...more

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first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

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Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

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Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die

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I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and futu...more

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Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others

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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

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There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.