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Time Quotes by T. S. Eliot

48 Time quotes by T. S. Eliot

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Desire is described as movement, while love is seen as still and the cause of that movement. Eliot writes about time urging us to wonder, to dare, and how each moment can shift our view of good and evil. He also says poetry helps us notice deep feelings, that history gives us patterns, and that exploring brings us back to where we began.

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Past art is subject to change.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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In life there is not time to grieve long.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey:…

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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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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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in…

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The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one…

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds…

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the…

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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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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of…

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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…

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who…

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before…

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

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and…

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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in…

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know…

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“No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a…

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Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of…

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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.