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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
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.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself

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