Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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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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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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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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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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