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1. seafoam*
   posted a quote
   July 5, 2017 7:37pm UTC
   “
   My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me. Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? I never know what you are thinking. Think.
   —T.S. Eliot
   ”
   
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2. seafoam*
   posted a quote
   December 4, 2016 3:58pm UTC
   I grow old ... I grow old ...
   I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
   Shall I part my hair behind?
   Do I dare to eat a peach?
   I shall wear white flannel trousers,
   and walk upon the beach.
   I have heard the mermaids singing,
   each to each.
   I do not think that they will sing to me.
   I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
   Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
   When the wind blows the water white and black.
   We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
   By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
   Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
   
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3. seafoam*
   posted a quote
   December 4, 2016 3:04pm UTC
   As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: “If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden…” I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end. —T.S. Eliot, Hysteria
   
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4. seafoam*
   posted a quote
   October 18, 2014 12:35pm UTC
   It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
   
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5. *nerium*
   posted a quote
   June 20, 2014 8:00pm UTC
   “the roses had the look of flowers that are looked at”
   
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6. Skimrande
   posted a quote
   January 18, 2014 10:35pm UTC
   THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
   THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
   THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
   NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER.
   
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7. Skimrande
   posted a quote
   January 18, 2014 10:31pm UTC
   Here we go round the prickly pear
   Prickly pear prickly pear
   Here we go round the prickly pear
   At five o'clock in the morning.
   Between the idea
   And the reality
   Between the motion
   And the act
   Falls the Shadow
   For Thine is the Kingdom
   Between the conception
   And the creation
   Between the emotion
   And the response
   Falls the Shadow
   Life is very long
   Between the desire
   And the spasm
   Between the potency
   And the existence
   Between the essence
   And the descent
   Falls the Shadow
   For Thine is the Kingdom
   For Thine is
   Life is
   For Thine is the
   This is the way the world ends
   This is the way the world ends
   This is the way the world ends
   Not with a bang but a whimper.
   
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8. VioletCherries
   posted a quote
   November 11, 2013 7:38pm UTC
   “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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9. jane :-)*
   posted a quote
   May 1, 2013 4:01pm UTC
   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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10. *exploit*
    posted a quote
    April 25, 2013 1:26pm UTC
    April is the cruellest month, breeding
    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    Memory and desire, stirring
    Dull roots with spring rain
    
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11. AEleanore
    posted a quote
    March 14, 2013 9:59pm UTC
    If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
    T. S. Eliot
    
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