"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
-T. S. Eliot
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
-T. S. Eliot
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"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
-T. S. Eliot
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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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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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
-Joseph Campbell
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
-Henry Miller
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
-Martin Luther
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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