Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. ELIOTThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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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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Teach us to care and not to care
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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 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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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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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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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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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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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