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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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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival
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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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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
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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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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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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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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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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.
T. S. Eliot
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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