We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T. S. ELIOTSome editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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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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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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This love is silent.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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