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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
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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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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