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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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
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
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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 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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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom

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