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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
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 communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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