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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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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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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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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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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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