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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

T. S. Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
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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Exploration Place Time Travel
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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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Decision Time Vision Yourself
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible

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