Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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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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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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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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