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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
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Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, i suppose.
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