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T. S. Eliot Quote: “Art is the escape from personality.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “And right action is freedom From past and future also.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “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 the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness...”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Humankind can’t stand too much reality.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Everyone’s alone – or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I’m sure they don’t. Is that a delusion?”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The poet’s mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “There will be time to murder and create.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with me- Because, if there isn’t, then there’s something wrong with the world itself-and that’s much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I’d rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “I don’t know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “My mind may be American but my heart is British.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “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; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Each way means loneliness – and communion.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “So the lover must struggle for words.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “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, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands”;.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “One starts an action simply because one must do something.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.”
T. S. Eliot Quote: “Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.”
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