Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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"Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative."

- T. S. Eliot

Positivity

""I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.""

- T. S. Eliot

Reflection

"At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted."

- T. S. Eliot

Contentment

"Home is where one starts from."

- T. S. Eliot

Philosophy

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea."

- T. S. Eliot

Philosophy

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity