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 | "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always
being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them
down." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy,
waiting for rain." | |
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Found in the topic Rain.
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| "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter
kept us warm, covering Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding A little life
with dried tubers." | |
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Found in the topic Spring.
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| "What we call the beginning Is often the end And to make an end Is to
make a new beginning. The end is where we start from." | |
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Found in the topic Begin.
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| "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and
infrequent, were exhaled." | |
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Found in the topic Virtue.
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| "And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And
in short, I was afraid." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war
ever does end." | |
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Found in the topic Civil.
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| "My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the
back of my hand." | |
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Found in the topic Light.
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| "Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must
be still and still moving Into another intensity For further union, a
deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation ... In my
end is my beginning." | |
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Found in the topic Discovery.
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| "And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at
morning striding behind you, Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic
bliss." | |
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Found in the topic Breakfast.
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| "The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with
nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Hell.
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| "Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act
Falls the Shadow." | |
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Found in the topic Shadow.
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| "We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning
together." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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| "Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the
music while the music lasts." | |
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Found in the topic Deep.
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| "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the
knowledge we have lost in information?" | |
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Found in the topic Information.
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| "If you haven"t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it offers you." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is
a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." | |
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Found in the topic Convince.
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