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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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