“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
“A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.”
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
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Context: My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.
Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
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I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
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