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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
―
with your one wild and precious life?”
―
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
--from "Insomniac", written April 1961”
― The Collected Poems
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
--from "Insomniac", written April 1961”
― The Collected Poems
“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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