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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.

T. S. Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
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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Beyond Escape Experience
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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

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