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Been Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 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…
- When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
- Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll…
- And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,…
- We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
- I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
- time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
- I've been born, and once is enough.
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