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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.


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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
         



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The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.



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Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.



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