It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOTFor you know only a heap of broken images
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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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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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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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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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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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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April 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 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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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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