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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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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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
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
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man

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