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T S Eliot Inspirational Quotes (307)

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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Good poets borrow, great poets steal
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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