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My soul shattered with the strainof trying to belong to earth-
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I don’t need your praiseto survive. I was here first,before you were here, beforeyou ever planted a garden.
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When the dream ended the terror remained.
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Because you were foolish enough to love one place,now you are homeless, an orphanin succession of shelters.
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The soul is silent. If it speaks at allit speaks in dreams.
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It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.
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Only victims have a destiny.[from 'Liberation']
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SnowdropsDo you know what I was, how I lived? You knowwhat despair is; thenwinter should have meaning for you.I did not expect to survive,earth suppressing me. I didn’t expectto waken again, to feelin damp earth my bodyable to respond again, rememberingafter so long how to open againin the cold lightof earliest spring—afraid, yes, but among you againcrying yes risk joyin the raw wind of the new world.
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Beauty dies: that is the sourceof creation....[from 'Hyacinth']
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