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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God and this has never happened before.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
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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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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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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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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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