T. S. Eliot quotes - page 6

In my beginning is my end. (T. S. Eliot)
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. View quote
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. View quote
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. View quote
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. View quote
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. View quote
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. View quote
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. (T. S. Eliot)
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. View quote
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. View quote
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. View quote
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. View quote
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. View quote
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Business today consists in persuading crowds. View quote
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For I have known them all already, known them all- Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. View quote
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. (T. S. Eliot)
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. View quote
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What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD. View quote
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? View quote
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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end. View quote
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