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T S Eliot Inspirational Quotes (307)

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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From a purely external point of view there is no will and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -
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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
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