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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

T. S. Eliot

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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
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
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 a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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