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Many poets can turn a phrase,
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but most of them
don't have the balls
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to tackle
the really great themes.
:13:39
I'm not sure I even know what
the "really great themes" are.
:13:45
Abandonment...
:13:47
Ioss, castration...
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That's never gonna be
one of my problems, thankfully.
:13:57
Chauvinism?
:13:59
That's tired,
don't you think?
:14:03
What about Yeats?
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The celebration
of the human imagination.
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- The magician.
- Melancholy.
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It's all melancholy.
:14:19
"The room swinging
with emptiness
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like an unswung bell."
Valentin Iremonger.
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I think
the really great ones
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use words in such a way
you can never take them back.
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Yeah, they do.
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"To separate from life...
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from tantalizing mysteries
and salt spray...
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from the grave
gypsy eyes...
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and the sacred, poignant flesh
of long-limbed dancers,
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unsullied,
but not for long."