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Words move, music moves Only in time but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.
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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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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