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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless Neither from nor towards at the still point, there the dance is.
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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
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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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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
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