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To sing is to begin a sentence
like "I want to get well.
I am not born for nothing
and neither are you:
Heaven never wept
over nothing."
~ Thomas Merton
from an untitled poem
thanks to whiskey river
The wine of life is oozing drop by drop,
The leaves of life are falling one by one.
~ Omar Khayyam
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Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;
And from that source alone, the Infinite
Crosses over to gladness, and us -
Free of our bridges
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
2 comments:
Pure love.
Just saw your site for the first time. I love the poems you've selected. Your site is beautiful. I wish you had displayed the poems without making the lines centered, and left them the way they were written. Although I love reading old favorites and being introduced to new ones, I find I've been looking them up elsewhere so I can see how they were written on the page by the writer.
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