T.S. Eliot - <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html">The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock</a>

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I had not recalled this poem in quite sometime until a friend mentioned the title. A powerful story about life's choices, indecision, the potential for regret and the fear of pursuing dreams and so much more. 

<blockquote>And would it have been worth it, after all,	
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,	
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,	
Would it have been worth while,	   
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,	
To have squeezed the universe into a ball	
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,	
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,	
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—	
If one, settling a pillow by her head,	
  Should say: “That is not what I meant at all.	
  That is not it, at all.”</blockquote>


