American - Poet | September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
TemptationWrongTreasonRightLast
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
WorldWayBangEnds
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
TempleWhereShallHomes
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
KnowledgeInformationLostWhere
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
YearTigerNewNew YearUsHe
This love is silent.
LoveLove IsSilent
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.
ExperienceBeyondNeverAlwaysMeans
Home is where one starts from.
HomeWhereStarts
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.
PeopleWorldFeelDoneImportant
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
StruggleWordsStrangeBreathMust
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
ManWorldOld ManWillMoreOld
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
WiseYouRulesKnowObserveHow
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