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In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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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 purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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