Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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