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James Merrill

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What we dream up must be lived down, I think.

James Merrill

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I knew
That life was fiction in disguise.

James Merrill

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And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

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Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry.

James Merrill

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Always that same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.

James Merrill

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Proust’s Law (are you listening?) is twofold:
(a) What least thing our self-love longs for most
Others instinctively withhold;
(b) Only when time has slain desire
Is his wish granted to a smiling ghost
Neither harmed nor warmed, now, by the fire.

James Merrill

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Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

James Merrill

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