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Own Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we…
- What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the…
- We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our…
- 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…
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of…
- Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings…
- 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…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
- If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
- To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order…
- It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound…
- Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of…
- My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual…
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