"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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"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.“
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
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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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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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