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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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’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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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

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