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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless Neither from nor towards at the still point, there the dance is.
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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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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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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