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Live in the layers, not on the litter.


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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.



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The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.



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You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.



I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.



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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.



The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.



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