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“There is hardly time to think about

stopping, and lying down at last
to the long afterlife, to the tenderness
yet to come, when
time will brim over the singular pond, and become forever,

and we will pretend to melt away into the leaves.
As for death,
I can’t wait to be the hummingbird,
can you?”

“What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”

“He seems, in fact, to find in me a kind of humor,  I am so vast, uncertain and strange.
I am the one who comes and goes,  
and who knows why.
Will I ever understand him?
Certainly he will never understand me,
or the world  I come from.
For he will never sing for the kingdom of dollars.
For he will never grow pockets in his gray wings.”

can i highlight every poem pls

“I went to China,
I went to Prague;
I died, and was born in the spring;
I found you, and loved you, again.”

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

“I think this isthe prettiest world—so long as you don’t mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life
that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?”

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body   
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.”

going this hard on page 1 is crazy work