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"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."
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"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."
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"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."
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"He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit."
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"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."
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"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one, two is two thousand times one."
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"If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
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"Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them."
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"Loneliness is a shadow of death."
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"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."
Reflection


"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."
Healing


"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
Creativity


"Is anyone anywhere happy?"
Reflection


"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."
Life


"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."
Time


"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."
Relationship


"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
Love


"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
Emotion


"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
Marriage
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