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Any Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it…
- Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
- Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to…
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
- It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having…
- The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
- No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art…
- You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
- Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a…
- I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't…
- Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to…
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
- But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism…
- To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem…
- The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house…
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