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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.

T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love 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
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.
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Dance Exception
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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
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
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music

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