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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the perm...more

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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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Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

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Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradis...more

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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your d...more

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.

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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.