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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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