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“then the voice in my head said
WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE
OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE ”
― In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE
OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE ”
― In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
“there is nothing more alienating than having one’s pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.”
― Desire/Love
― Desire/Love
“Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“I’m still alive, I have time to build
My blood will outlast the rose.”
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My blood will outlast the rose.”
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“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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