April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. ELIOTThere is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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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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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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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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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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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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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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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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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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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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 love is silent.
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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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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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