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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
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