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T. S. Eliot

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[Wikipedia] Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, he is considered one of t

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

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

Done

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

Dear

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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…

Faith

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Destiny

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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…

Cease

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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…

Framework

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

Appreciation

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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…

Aspect

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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…

Art

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Experience

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The end is in the beginning.

Birth

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

Cat

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

Different

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

Inadequate

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

Birth

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“she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental…

Laughter

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

Experience

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In my beginning is my end.

Birth

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In the end is my beginning.

Birth

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an…

Emotion

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Crime

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

Hollow

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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour…

Care

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Clean heart

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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the…

Dare

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