T. S. Eliot Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The only hope, or else despair
  Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
  To be redeemed from fire by fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Lying, Fire

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• O father, father
  Gone from us, lost to us,
  The church lies bereft,
  Alone,
  Desecrated, desolated.
  And the heathen shall build
  On the ruins
  Their world without God.
  I see it.
  I see it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Father, Church

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Knowledge, Desire

• Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Vision, Shadow

• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Ambition, Knowledge

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

• Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

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