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“Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes”
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“One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

“unrequited love is like
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.”
― The Chaos of Longing
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.”
― The Chaos of Longing
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