Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
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when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...
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I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, d...
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there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving th...
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when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns
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all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight.
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Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.
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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...
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that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
