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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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