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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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not fare well, but fare forward

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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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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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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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April is the cruellest month.

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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

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