This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
T. S. ELIOTIt’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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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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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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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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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 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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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Teach us to care and not to care
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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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 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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