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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S. Eliot

It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. ELIOT

Growth Poet

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