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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

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
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

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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