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- There is only one question: / how to love this world.
- I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.
- You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
- Attention without feeling--is only a report.
- The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who…
- I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of…
- ...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,…
- Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
- The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You…
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
- What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
- All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed…
- Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until…
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You…
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