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Jack Kerouac

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A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

 
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One that is ever kind said yesterday:
'Your well-belovéd's hair has threads of grey,
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Time can but make it easier to be wise
Though now it seems impossible, and so
All that you need is patience.'
Heart cries, 'No,
I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain.
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I am the sunlight in the heart, the silver moonglow in the mind;
My laughter runs and ripples through the wavy tresses of the wind.
I am the fire upon the hills, the dancing flame that leads afar
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A terrible violence of creation,
A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;
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A sunlit silence.

 
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