T. S. Eliot Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

• Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

• time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Might

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

• Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Past, Desire

  1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

• Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Littles, Consciousness

  1935 Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.

• At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Silence, Would Be

  Collected Poems (1936) "Burnt Norton" pt. 2

• Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Times Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

• And right action is freedom From past and future also.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Past, Action

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

• Here between the hither and the farther shore
  While time is withdrawn, consider the future
  And the past with an equal mind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.173, Faber & Faber

• Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Healing, Past, Vitality

• The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Historical, Perception

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.478, Faber & Faber

• The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Quartets

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Hints, Half

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

• Past art is subject to change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Past, Art Is

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