Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?


T.S. Eliot

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Do not dare not to dare.
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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
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For he will do
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke ...
T.S. ELIOT
One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in t...
T.S. ELIOT
The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and...
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Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorati...
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Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences...
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Mar...
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human ...
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to ...
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
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When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair w...
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
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In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
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To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
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That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w...
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When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan...
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The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
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For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
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There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
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We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine
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Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
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