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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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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See 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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory 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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People

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