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" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "
T. S. Eliot
Temple
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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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" You are the music while the music lasts. "
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" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "
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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
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" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "
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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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" 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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" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "
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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
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" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "
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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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" Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. "
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" In my beginning is my end. "
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" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. "
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" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "
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" April is the cruellest month. "
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" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "
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Changing
Help
" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "
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Older
" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "
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Ticket
Anything
" 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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Baby
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Mother
" 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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Silence
Books
Write
" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "
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Blood
Public
" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
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" 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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" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "
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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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" Home is where one starts from. "
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