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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
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 are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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Art is the escape from personality.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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Humankind can't stand too much reality.
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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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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.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
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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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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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When the Stranger says: What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? We all dwell together To make money from each other? or This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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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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