The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. 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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