This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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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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In my end is my beginning.
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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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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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