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“Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.”
― The Selected Poems
― The Selected Poems
“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.”
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“We’ll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge
with tiny wristwatches on their wings:
our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas”
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with tiny wristwatches on their wings:
our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas”
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“By walking I found out
Where I was going.
By intensely hating, how to love.
By loving, whom and what to love.
By grieving, how to laugh from the belly.
Out of infirmity, I have built strength.
Out of untruth, truth.
From hypocrisy, I wove directness.
Almost now I know who I am.
Almost I have the boldness to be that man.
Another step
And I shall be where I started from.”
― A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems
Where I was going.
By intensely hating, how to love.
By loving, whom and what to love.
By grieving, how to laugh from the belly.
Out of infirmity, I have built strength.
Out of untruth, truth.
From hypocrisy, I wove directness.
Almost now I know who I am.
Almost I have the boldness to be that man.
Another step
And I shall be where I started from.”
― A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems
“The famous and rich, even the learned and wise,
Singly or in pairs went to her dwelling
To press their civilized lips to her thighs
Or learn at first hand her buttocks' swelling
"Old nicoise whore”
― The Selected Poems
Singly or in pairs went to her dwelling
To press their civilized lips to her thighs
Or learn at first hand her buttocks' swelling
"Old nicoise whore”
― The Selected Poems
