music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
T. S. ELIOTWhere does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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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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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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 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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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 have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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