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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

T. S. Eliot

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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Myself Photograph Suffering
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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
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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing

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