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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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In life there is not time to grieve long.
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