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Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.


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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.



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



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