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Out Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in…
- It is worth dying to find out what life is.
- A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light…
- And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
- That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With…
- The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side…
- To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a…
- As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in…
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you,…
- For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
- Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us…
- The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps…
- Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky
- For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee…
- And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, thatkept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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