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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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Where is the Life we lost in living?
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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