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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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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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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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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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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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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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My mind may be American but my heart is British.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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