Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

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Middle Age

Like black ice
Scrolled over with unintelligible patterns
by an ignorant skater
Is the dulled surface of my heart.

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

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The Pond

Cold, wet leaves
Floating on moss-coloured water,
And the croaking of frogs-
Cracked bell-notes in the twilight.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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Aliens

The chatter of little people
Breaks on my purpose
Like the water-drops which slowly wear the rocks to powder.
And while I laugh
My spirit crumbles at their teasing touch.

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The Bungler

You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncontrolled candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
and then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs.

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