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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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Poetry is a mug's game.
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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 communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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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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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
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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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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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