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The Lover
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No, something occurred when I was eighteen to make this face happen. It must have been at night. I was afraid of myself, afraid of God. In the daylight I was less afraid, and death seemed less important. But it haunted me all the time. I
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible.This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and is not desirable.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“No one loves you for what you have done, but for what you might do.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“To be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will begin tomorrow.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“I saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
I saw in vision
The worm in the wheat,
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.”
―
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
I saw in vision
The worm in the wheat,
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.”
―
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