It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.
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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.T.S. Eliot
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
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When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
T.S. Eliot
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