For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
T. S. ELIOTImmature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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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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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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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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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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