Quote #25

I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.

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  1. pure dust that is all in all. Bless, weightless Spirit. Drink Caliban, push your tongue heavy into the calyx.
  2. Delivered out of raw continual pain, smell of darkness, groans of those others to whom he was chained - unchained, and led past the sleeper…
  3. Let Ariel learn a blessing for Caliban and Caliban drink dew from the lotus open upon the waters.
  4. And not till he saw the angel had left him, alone and free to resume the ecstatic, dangerous, wearisome roads of what he had still to do, n…
  5. Leaps of nerve, heart - cries of communion: if there is bliss, it has been already and will be; out- reaching, utterly. Blind to itself, fl…
  6. He himself must be the key, now, to the next door, the next terrors of freedom and joy.
  7. The poet never must lose despair.
  8. Lord, not you, it is I who am absent.

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