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The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones. ↗


— Pablo Neruda


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After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? ↗


— Frank O'Hara


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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come ↗


— William Wordsworth


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A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important. ↗


— Wisława Szymborska


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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss. ↗


— Mary Oliver


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To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


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Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


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Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ↗


— John Green


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but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties ↗


— Adrienne Rich


#dreams

I didn't know the demons that walked across your memory. They came from the dust when you were at peace in your grave. ↗


— Susie Clevenger


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