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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
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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Beyond Escape Experience
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
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
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel

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