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... And here am I, budding among the ruins With only sorrow to bite on, As if weeping were a seed and I The earth's only furrow.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day
Despair is the price one pays for setting onself an impossible aim.
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.
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