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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

T. S. Eliot

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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 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
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time

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