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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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“A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.”
“The greatness of work is inside man.”
“A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.”
“Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.”
“Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.”
“The future is always beginning now.”
“Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.”
“Did anyone ever have a boring dream?”
“The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.”
“There are strange hells within the minds war made.”
“And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.”
“We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.”
“Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.”
“When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.”
“Death is no different whined at than withstood.”
“This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.”
“It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.”
“Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.”
“We are the ghosts of the singing furies .”
“Where cheating is, there's mischief there.”
“How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?”
“Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.”
“Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.”
“The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.”
“The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.”
“Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.”