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Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia. (Joanna Newsom)
And though our bones, they may break And our souls separate, why the long face? And though our bodies recoil From the grip of the soil, why the long face? View quote
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Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere; cartouche and tweed, all silver shot - and everything that could remind you of how easy I was not. View quote
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And the love we hold, and the love we spurn, Will never grow cold, only taciturn. View quote
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And in an infinite regress: Tell me, why is the pain of birth lighter borne than the pain of death? View quote
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And if you come and see me, you will upset the order. You cannot come and see me, for I set myself apart. But when you come and see me, in California, you cross the border of my heart. View quote
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In this life, who did you love, beneath the drifting ashes, beneath the sheeting banks of air that barrenly bore our rations? View quote
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A feather of a hawk was bound Bound around my neck A poultice made of fig The eager little vultures pecked. View quote
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Well I'm starvin' and freezin' In this measly old bed (Then I'll crawl across the salt flats To stroke your sweet head) Come across the desert, with no shoes on? (I love you truly, or I love no-one) View quote
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As the day is long, so the well runs dry, and we came to see Time is taller than Space is wide. And we bade goodbye to the Great Divide: found unlimited simulacreage to colonize! View quote
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I may have changed, it's hard to gauge Time won't account for how I've aged Would that I could tie your lying tongue Who says that leaving keeps you young. (Joanna Newsom)
The tap of hangers, swaying in the closet - unburdened hooks and empty drawers - and everywhere I tried to love you is yours again, and only yours. View quote
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It does not suffice for you to say I am a sweet girl, or to say you hate to see me sad because of you. It does not suffice, to merely lie beside each other, as those who love each other do. View quote
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Driven through by her own sword, summer died last night, alone. View quote
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I can't call them linear narratives, and I can't call them chronological in a traditional, classical sense; I'm sure there's plenty of stuff I borrow more from William Faulkner than William Shakespeare. I just find it funny that at this point, we see a collection of highly charged, highly potent symbols as referring back to a classical aesthetic, because to me they seem deeply connected to the pedestrian actuality of real life. View quote
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Above them, parades mark the passing of days through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel, where all of the Twenty Thousand attending your foot fall (and the Cause that they died for) are lost in the idling birdcalls, and the records they left are cryptic at best, lost in obsolescence. View quote
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Hung from the underbelly of the Earth While the stars skid away below Gormless and brakeless; gravel-loose Falling silent as gavels in the snow. View quote
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And, for the sake of that pit of snakes, for whom did you allay your shyness, and spend all your mercy, and madness, and grace, in a day, beneath the bending cypress? View quote
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Emily, I saw you last night by the river I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever In a mud cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror. View quote
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It is too short - the day we are born, we commence with our dying. View quote
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By the time you read this I will be so far away Daddy longlegs, how in the world Am I to be expected to stay? (Joanna Newsom)
And, when the bulbs do flash, as bright as morning, the crowd keeps on gathering like an electric storm. View quote
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What's redacted will repeat, and you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat, so we touch the heat, and we cut facsimiles of love and death (just separate holes in sheets where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see). View quote
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Hey little leaf, lying on the ground- now you're turning slightly brown! Why don't you come back on the tree, turn the color green the way you ought to be? View quote
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We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable as clay But ships are fallible, I say And the nautical, as all things, fades. View quote
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