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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.


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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.



From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.



Your absence has gone through me

Your absence has gone through me



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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain



On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree



I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.



Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.



The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.



Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.



I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.





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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.



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The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

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