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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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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
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