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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Where he gets his spirits
It's a mystery. But the stuff keeps him musical:
all afternoon
Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains ...
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
who should moor at his edge
And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
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The sea curling,
Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
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This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,
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