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

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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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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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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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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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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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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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