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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
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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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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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Art is the escape from personality.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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