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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
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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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
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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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