Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. ELIOTAn 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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Teach us to care and not to care
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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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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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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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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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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