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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.

T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk

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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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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