If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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I have always been fascinated by the musical talent, the calypso, the carnival and the sweet sound of pan, ... Trinidad was the best place to host the world premier and to display the vast local talent.
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