The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTIt will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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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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In my end is my beginning.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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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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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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