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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
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
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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Myself Photograph Suffering
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
T. S. ELIOT

Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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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Joke Listen Lonely People
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

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