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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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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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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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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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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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

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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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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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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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Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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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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