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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.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom

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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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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