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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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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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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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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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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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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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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.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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