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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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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
It 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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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
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

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