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This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career.
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“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”
“Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.”
“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
“If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.”
“His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.”
“If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
“Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.”
“The power of the visible is the invisible.”
“Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.”
“Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.”
“The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.”
“I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.”
“Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.”
“Thou art true and honest as a dog.”
“Things that are not at all, are never lost.”
“What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.”
“Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.”
“There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.”
“As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.”
“A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.”
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
“You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.”
“Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.”
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.”
“Might verse not best confuse itself with fate?”