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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
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Words move, music moves Only in time but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep at night he hunts God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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My mind may be American but my heart is British.
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