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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
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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