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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
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