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“ Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo. ”

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And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

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A poem should not meanBut be.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

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We knock upon silence for an answering music.

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