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• War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod....
• Dance until the earth dance.
• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of…
• The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken…
• The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and…
• remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb,…
• ...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
• There's a black rose growing in your garden.
• Writing. Love is writing.
• Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
• She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the…
• O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

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