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Poetry Friday

TO PURITY

I have heard so much about you

if you claim to be you I will know it’s not true

if you say nothing I will listen as I do with my own old mixed feelings of hope and reservation

hearing through them whatever might be you

the way I see the white light [...]

Integrity is …

… simultaneously the cheapest and the most expensive of virtues. One can sell their integrity for pennies, but can’t buy it back for all the money in the world. A person can be dirt poor, but if he still has his integrity, he is very rich indeed.

Poetry Friday

BE DRUNK  

You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But [...]