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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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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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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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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Good poets borrow, great poets steal
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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?
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Art is the escape from personality.
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
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not fare well, but fare forward
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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Survival is your strength not your shame.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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My mind may be American but my heart is British.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
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