It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
T. S. ELIOTFor you know only a heap of broken images
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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