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We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Born Love Love Is Mother
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Beloved Body Contain Could
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Blood Cried Cry Eyes
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Always Autumn Beyond Condition
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Another Back Between Days
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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

Anything Give Glad Heart
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Borrowed Earth Fell Forever
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Against Beats Blows Dust
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
Eyes First Gave Heard
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Beauty Garden Know Need
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enemy Friend Heart Hundred
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Alone Am Ashamed Come
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Connected Depression Insolence Praise
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Angels Become Cannot Die
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Brings False Heart Joyous
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Find Languages Love Own
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Again All The World Born Born-Again
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Ally Become Compassion Everything
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Become Bitter Copper Gold
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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Blood Jet Poetry Stopping
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

Am Christian I Am Jew
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Frail Heart How Human
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

Am Boundaries East Exist
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Again Go Go Home Ground
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Affair Discover Down Else
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Beyond Field Ideas Meet
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Consumes Itself Widow Word
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Angel Devils Must Print
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Am How I Am Important
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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Dream Half Life Love
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Like Nothing Pile Stinks
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While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Cheek Maiden Roses Thought
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Because Close Dangerously Everything Find
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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Balances Interest Life Long
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
Am Anyone I Am Pure
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Away Burn Discipline Far
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences
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One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Able Control Experiences Informed
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I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.
Begun Feel Jew Like
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How we need another soul to cling to.
Another Cling How Need
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

Heart Life Skin Wear
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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Cannot Children Perfection Terrible
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Anybody Disappointed Expect Never
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I have a visual imagination.

Imagination Visual
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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Being Busy Insane Time You
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What I want back is what I was.
Back Want
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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Best Harm Lot Poetry
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What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Arrow Future Man Off
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