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If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

But to cast my life away just like that
for nothing at all
that
I won't do.

The worst is yet to come:
I'm still alive.

Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss.

When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs.

All my life I have been faithful to love.

A lad changed to a shrub in spring,
the shrub into a shepherd boy,
A fine hair to a lyre string,
snow into snow on hair piled high.