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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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“It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.”
“Time can make soft that iron wood.”
“Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!”
“A world to be born under your footsteps.”
“He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.”
“But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!”
“See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.”
“Spend all you have for loveliness.”
“And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”
“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.”
“I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off”
“Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.”
“How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?”
“Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.”
“All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.”
“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
“Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?”
“The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.”
“The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.”
“The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.”
“To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.”
“Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.”
“The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.”
“Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!”
“Evil alone has oil for every wheel.”
“Take love when love is given.”
“There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.”
“You can't put off being young until you retire.”