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They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.


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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.



For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.



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Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .



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A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.



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I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.



Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.



And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.



Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.





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