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Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.


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Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.



Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.



I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.



Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.



As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.



I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.



Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.



Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.



O starry night, This is how I want to die

O starry night, This is how I want to die



O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.





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The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.



From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.

From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.



But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.

But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.



If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.



All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.



Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.



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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.



A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.




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