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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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“How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?”
“Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”
“The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.”
“I close my eyes, and think of water.”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“One thought fills immensity.”
“I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.”
“I think I may well be a Jew.”
“And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.”
“I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.”