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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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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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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
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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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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
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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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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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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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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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