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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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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
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not fare well, but fare forward
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline revolution a denial of the permanent things.
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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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My mind may be American but my heart is British.
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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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