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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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War among men defiles this world.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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