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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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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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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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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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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
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Art is the escape from personality.
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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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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