"When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing."
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"My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web."
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"Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings"
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"And the aura of you remains, remains, remains..."
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"All who love have lied."
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"To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant."
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"Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there."
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"Need is not quite belief."
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"My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict."
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"But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it."
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"Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build."
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"No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God."
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"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
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"Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem."
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"Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks."
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"For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling."
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"I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go."
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"Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises."
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"[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one."
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"I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware..."
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