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Words Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a…
- Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
- 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…
- With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of…
- The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech,…
- It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
- So the lover must struggle for words.
- Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not…
- The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of…
- Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by…
- I gotta use words to talk to you.
- If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves…
- 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…
- He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing;…
- For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
- So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila