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There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
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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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
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