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5714 Poet Quotes

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Art Blind Enslavement Silent
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Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.

Nobody Yourself Someone Loves
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Controls Media Mind
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Think Intelligent Human being Soul
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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes

Time Live Laugh Die
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws

Death Angels Wings
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There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

Laws Rules Friend Love
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Drugs Bet Mind
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend

Fear Death Pain Life
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Love Save You Fate
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Fear Violence Feelings Pain
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Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

Childhood Maturity Tests Deaths
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask

Important Freedom Role Feel
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel

Poetry Achieve Deliver People
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It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....

Written Book Things Dying
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Poem Sad Wants Yours
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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Death Building Wise Purpose
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The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Mind Hospitable Learn Knowledge
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The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

Facts History Rehearsed
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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position

Beauty Integrity Logic Position
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Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

Things Harden Moment Indecision
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Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

Love Heritage Mysterious Pure
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Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Beautiful Discarded Impression Ourselves
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Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Reading Pleasure Finish End
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them

Write Experiences Mind About
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Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen

Starts Stink Inevitable Happen
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

View Poetry Life People
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The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

Soul Secret Perfectly Attention
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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Thought Writing Poetry Political
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The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

Soul Establishes Return Safely
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What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

What Past Mental
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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Feel Poetry Time Stream
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I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience

Want Read Easily Resilience
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Death is an ascension to a better library.

Death Ascension Library
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet

Wicked Worse Indiscreet
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Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Love Growing Light Night
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No man is an island

Man Island
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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

Things Destruction Love Decay
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Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind

Man's Death Diminishes Mankind
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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Doubt Strange Right Wrong
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so

Death Proud Mighty Dreadful
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Palace World's Jail
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Kisses Letter Mingle Souls
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts

Feel Words Human Thoughts
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Nature Masterpiece Harmless Great
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book

Love's Soul Grow Body
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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

Soul Reflect Itself Consider
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I am a little world made cunningly.

Little World Cunningly
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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

Reason Soul's Faith Divinity
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee

Beauty Desired Got Dream
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