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Odd that a thing is most itself when likened


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Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.



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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.



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All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know



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Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.



The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.



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There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.



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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.



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The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.



Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.



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Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.





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