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at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight.
The Wright Angles • Complete Works of William Shakespeare: 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets
True ambition in a poet seeks fame in the old sense, to make words that live forever. If even to entertain such ambition reveals monstrous egotism, let me argue that the common alternative is petty egotism that spends itself in small competitiveness, that measures its success by quantity of publication, by blurbs on jackets, by small achievement:
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Consumed today, Beowulf is mostly about what isn’t there. And that will be the same for whatever 2016 text survives into 3016.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The Hollow Men by T S Eliot - Famous poems, famous poets. - All ...
allpoetry.comUncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music. Only joy and sorrow accompanied by reflection on the universe generate metaphysical theories. A man may be a cheerful pessimist or a melancholy optimist. Perhaps Samuel Butler may serve…
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Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
16 I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.[3] 18 For in much wisdom is much vexation, “NOTHING NEW UND
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by Kenneth Koch
You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What’s true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.
There isn’t time enough, my friends–
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends–
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Madeleine Dore • You want a social life, with friends
was in this way that the ardent little crammer, with his whimsical perceptions and complicated sympathies, was generally condemned not to settle down comfortably either to his displeasures or to his enthusiasms. His love of the real truth never gave him a chance to enjoy them.