If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

Kenneth Patchen
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There are no more important questions asked of life. They are the questions that have been asked since time began. The answers are hard to come by, but they are there somewhere. The first question is the most important of them all. Why do we sleep? Usually, we sleep to restore our bodies and minds, but what does that have to do with the outside world? Is it just a way for us to rest our brains, or is there something more?

Source: Collected Poems

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