Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. ELIOTIn my end is my beginning.
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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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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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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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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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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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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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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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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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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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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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