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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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Past art is subject to change.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
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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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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God and this has never happened before.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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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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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
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And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
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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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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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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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