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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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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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 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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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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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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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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