Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. ELIOTMen dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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