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" In my beginning is my end. "
T. S. Eliot
Beginning
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" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "
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" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "
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" We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. "
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" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "
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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
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" So the lover must struggle for words. "
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" Home is where one starts from. "
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" Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. "
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" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "
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" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "
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" The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. "
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" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "
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Difficulties
Our
" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "
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" Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. "
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" If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' "
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You
Mother
" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "
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Lost
" April is the cruellest month. "
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April
Month
" It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. "
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" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "
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" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "
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