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unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

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For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

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The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.

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beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

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If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees...more

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I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separate...more

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You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.

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But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

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It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

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so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

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The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.

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Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.