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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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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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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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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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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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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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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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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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When the Stranger says: What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? We all dwell together To make money from each other? or This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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