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I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T.S. Eliot
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no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . .
Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot
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The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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The faithfull knight now grew in litle space, By hearing her, and by her sisters lore, To such perfection of all heavenly grace, That wretched world he gan for to abhore,
Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie
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In my end is my beginning.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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Teach us to care and not to care
T.S. Eliot
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The faithfull knight now grew in litle space, By hearing her, and by her sisters lore, To such perfection of all heavenly grace, That wretched world he gan for to abhore,
Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie
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We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass
T.S. Eliot
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Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be.
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
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He seekes out mighty charmes , to trouble sleepy mindes.
Edmund Spenser, Book 1 of the Faery Queene
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