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Good poets borrow, great poets steal
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 can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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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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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
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In the end is my beginning.
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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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