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I like to read because it kills me.


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I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?



A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.



We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.



In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.



in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.



I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.



Art has always been aware of itself as art.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.


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In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?



In the end I would rather wonder than know

In the end I would rather wonder than know



The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.





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I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.



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When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.



We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.



When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.



I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.

I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.



Don't be distracted by doubters.

Don't be distracted by doubters.



Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.



Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.



When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.




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