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T. S. Eliot

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
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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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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 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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
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
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

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