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Cannot Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined…
- Human kind cannot bear much reality.
- They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several…
- A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
- Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each…
- When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
- The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
- One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is,…
- Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
- The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
- 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…
- If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So…
- We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
- Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
- Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah,…
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