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When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real....

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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

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Hail them, and fall off. Fall off! The drink is not yours, it is not yours! You do not come...

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I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

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Beware the dead. And hail them. They teach you drunkenness. You have your own place to drink. Hail and beware them, when they come.

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What does not change is the will to change

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Atlantis will rise again.

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Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

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Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.

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My life ...

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)

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I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

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And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid...

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There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year.

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What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.

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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot;

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Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

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'I shall be one with nature, herb, and stone', Shelley would tell me. Shelley wound be stunned:...

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Without consistency there is no moral strength.

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