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Love Quotes by T. S. Eliot

52 Love quotes by T. S. Eliot

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T. S. Eliot describes love as a still force that moves desire, not the other way around. He links love with faith and hope, saying they wait together. He also notes that love can feel chaotic, and that understanding it often comes after missed meaning.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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This love is silent.

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We shall not cease from exploration

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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The end is where we start from.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

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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…

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope…

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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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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand…

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone,…

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to…

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual…

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Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring…

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does…

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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The…

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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There will be time to murder and create.

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Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

The end is in the beginning.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.