T. S. Eliot quotes - page 8

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. (T. S. Eliot)
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust. View quote
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. View quote
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people. View quote
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For you know only a heap of broken images. View quote
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life. View quote
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. View quote
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. View quote
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. View quote
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity. View quote
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Where is the Life we lost in living? (T. S. Eliot)
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience. View quote
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We must learn to suffer more. View quote
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Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question. View quote
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. View quote
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. View quote
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It is impossible to say just what I mean! View quote
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My mind may be American but my heart is British. View quote
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill. View quote
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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown. View quote
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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment. (T. S. Eliot)
Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness... View quote
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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not. View quote
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-- Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. View quote
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? View quote
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