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All our ignorance brings us closer to death. - [Ignorance] Humankind cannot bear very much reality. - [Reality] Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - [Writing] The repeated reminder of Mr. Pound: that poetry should be as well written as prose. - in Marianne Moore's "Selected Poems," p. 7 [Poetry] In my beginning is my end. - Four Quartets--East Coker [Books (First Lines)] The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An easy commerce of the old and new, The common word exact without vulgarity, The formal word precise but not pedantic, The complete consort dancing together. - Four Quartets--Little Gidding [Poetry] This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - The Hollow Men [End] There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [Time] April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. - The Waste Land (pt. I) [April : Spring]
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