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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.

T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. ELIOT

Growth Poet
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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Garden Memories Rose
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
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
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. ELIOT

Dance Exception

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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