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Men Quotes by T. S. Eliot

38 Men quotes by T. S. Eliot

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Eliot paints a picture of everyday life that feels chaotic and broken into pieces. He also describes men as hollow, empty shells who struggle with love and self‑esteem. Finally, he warns that war stains the world and that rise and fall repeat like a cycle.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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War among men defiles this world.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning together.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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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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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is…

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the…

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the…

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how…

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all…

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of…

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended /…

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We…

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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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In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their…

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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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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know…

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…

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Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no…

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…

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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom…

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,…

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient…

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No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward…

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity…

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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in…

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not…

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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too…

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,…

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…

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

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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

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.