If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOTApril is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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In my end is my beginning.
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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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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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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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