Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being to which we rarely penetrate, for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The journey, not the arrival, matters.
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.
A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance, or insignificance.
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