Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. ELIOTTime present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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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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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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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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