The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T.S. Eliot
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  1. Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  2. For I have known them all already, known them all– Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  3. There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

  4. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

  5. In my end is my beginning.

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