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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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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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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
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