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Dead Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
- There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate…
- I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls…
- A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep…
- As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
- The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
- A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no…
- April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
- You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your…
- Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we…
- 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…
- And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
- I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
- He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon