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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
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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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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 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
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself

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