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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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 learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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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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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
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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 chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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