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Thing Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
- We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.…
- And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
- 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 remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
- 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,…
- 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…
- For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in…
- I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
- The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
- I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love…
- I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
- Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing…
- 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…
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get…
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