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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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 will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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