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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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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
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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.
T. S. Eliot
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
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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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At the still point, there the dance is.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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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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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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not fare well, but fare forward
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
