Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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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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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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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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