Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. ELIOTSuccess is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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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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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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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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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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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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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