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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. (T. S. Eliot)
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. View quote
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. View quote
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Think Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. View quote
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I can connect Nothing with nothing. View quote
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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit. View quote
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Home is where one starts from. View quote
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." View quote
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This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. [...] The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley. View quote
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. View quote
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This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. [...] The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms [http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#fiftysevensixty In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech ]Gathered on this beach of the tumid river [http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyonesixtytwo Sightless, unless The eyes reappear] [http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyfoursixtythree As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose] Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men. (T. S. Eliot)
We sometimes feel, in following the words and behavior of some of the characters of Dostoevsky, that they are living at once on the plane we know and on some other place of reality from which we are shut out. View quote
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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. View quote
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. View quote
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Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends. View quote
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There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings. View quote
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We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet's difference from his predecessors. View quote
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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole. View quote
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What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. View quote
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This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional. And it is at the same time what makes a writer most acutely conscious of his place in time, of his contemporaneity. View quote
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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. (T. S. Eliot)
The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new. View quote
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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. View quote
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For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse. View quote
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They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. View quote
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