#poems

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ↗

— E.E. Cummings

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Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. ↗

— Ryokan

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Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I recreate myself; that is my only power. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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What you gain here, you lose on the other side. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Creating means living. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I travel, always arriving in the same place. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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