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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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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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Art is the escape from personality.
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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