American - Poet | September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot
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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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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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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 will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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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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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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