T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 11

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• The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

  T. S. Eliot

  Age, Talent

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• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Heart, Sight

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Creative, Toil, Sifting

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• And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• In my beginning is my end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• 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 shore.

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  Body, Speak, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

  T. S. Eliot

  Forgiveness, Corridors

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

  T. S. Eliot

  All Time, Ifs

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

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• I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reading, Exercise, Healthy

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• Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

  T. S. Eliot

  Sky, Sawdust, Evening

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 1 (1917)

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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Thinking, Play

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• Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Cat

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Phrases, Ends, Epitaph

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  T. S. Eliot

  Care, Praying, Hours

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Thinking, Nerves

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Religion, Literature, Littles

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

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• Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Effort, Together

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• Can we only love
  Something created in our own imaginations?

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  Life, Imagination, Only Love

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

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• No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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  Art, Personality, Produce

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.595, Faber & Faber

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• Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

  T. S. Eliot

  Consequence

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• The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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  Men, Harder, Labor

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• 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

  Years, Different, Emotion

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• Love is the unfamiliar Name
  Behind the hands that wove
  The intolerable shirt of flame
  Which human power cannot remove.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Flames

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

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• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Purple, Tree

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