Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
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