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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
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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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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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