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Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

Perhaps I Content Mere
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What Joy Dance Sing
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Book Container Idea Inside
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Anxiety Conscience Parent Soul
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing Matter Life Death
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Hopes Future Consign Hypothesis
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority Wisdom Like Edge
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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Wisdom Inheritance Good Without
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
That We Live No more
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My love is such that rivers cannot quench

My Love Rivers Cannot
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Sweet Words Honey Refresh
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Youth Time Getting Age
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

If Do Prove Advance
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Prosperous State Makes Secure
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Fire Force Abated Anger
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Love Be concealed Small cough Small love
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If Pleasant Taste Adversity
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Watch out Knows nothing Leaves you Hanging
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Your ear Down close Your soul Listen hard
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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

I Prize Love More than
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Stuffing Your mouth Your promises Watching you
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

M alone Own mind No map No road
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

World Longer Love Hope
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Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Live Die Don't poison Everything
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

My books Anoint me Few friends Reach
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

No one A body Cannot escape To fly
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The joy that isn't shared dies young.

The joy Shared Dies young
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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

We Strangers Pilgrims Plainly declare
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

All day I've built Lifetime Sun sinks
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Man Grows Old Remains
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Depression Boring Do better Some soup
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Doesn't matter My father I remember He was
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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen

Sometimes The soul Takes pictures Things
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Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Sin Shame Together Freed
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Saints have No moderation Do poets Just exuberance
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Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Don't bite You know It's bread Stone
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

Suicide The opposite The poem
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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

My head Undergoing Open heart Surgery
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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Take Your foot Graveyard Are busy
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

God Owns heaven He craves The earth
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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

The soul Not cured Clothes closet Dresses
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Beautiful feeling After writing A poem Whole better
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

Suicide have Special language Like carpenters Why build
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Poetry My life Postmark My hands
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Am crazy I know Kind Sanity
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Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Without wars Life Is dangerous
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And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

I tried Give you Something else Outside myself
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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Death Little addiction I need My voice
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

I'm writing I know I'm doing Was born
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