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“Home is where one starts from.” — T. S. Eliot

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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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“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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“You are the music while the music lasts.” — T. S. Eliot

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“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.” — T. S. Eliot

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“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot

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“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.” — Josh Billings

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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” — Robert Frost

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