Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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