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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.

~T. S. Eliot

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26th, 1888

Died: January 4th, 1965

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