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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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The end is where we start from.

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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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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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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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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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