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Very 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…
- It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- All cases are unique and very similar to others.
- 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 circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
- The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
- Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- There is no method but to be very intelligent.
- The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
- Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the…
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