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This book is a collection of poems that spans different styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of poetic expression.
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“My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.”
“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.”
“Walk with the dead For fear of death.”
“... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.”
“No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.”
“Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.”
“The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.”
“... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.”
“Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.”
“I close my eyes, and think of water.”
“God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.”
“The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.”
“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
“Each moment is a place you've never been.”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“One thought fills immensity.”
“Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?”