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…I hate myself for not being ...

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

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The silence depressed me. It ...

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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* to know a lot of people I l...

* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

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I think the whole emphasis in...

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

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So, now I shall talk every ni...

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

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I thought the most beautiful ...

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

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The abstract kills, the concr...

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

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August rain: the best of the ...

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

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It is a feeling that no matte...

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

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I must say what I admire most...

I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.

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Life has been some combinatio...

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

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Out of the ash I rise with my...

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

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I fancied you'd return the wa...

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

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...we shall board our imagine...

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

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To annihilate the world by an...

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

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Dying Is an art, like everyth...

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

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That is salvation. To give of...

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

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I am still so na?ve; I know p...

I am still so na?ve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

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I wonder why I don't go to be...

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

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All I want is blackness. Blac...

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

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