T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 14

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• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  T. S. Eliot

  Dark, Space, Vacant

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

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• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funeral, Done, Tickets

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• Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Window Panes, Tea, Vision

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Dying

  Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

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• War among men defiles this world.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Men, World

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.245, Faber & Faber

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• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

  T. S. Eliot

  Helping, Language, Should

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• What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Poetry, May

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Wise, Rebellion, Know How

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• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Agony, Desire

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• I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
  I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tired, Dying, Mortality

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Spring, Sunset, Paris

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

  T. S. Eliot

  Boxers, Poet, Easier

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• There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Experience, Quartets, Seems

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, White, Together

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 5

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hints, Half, Quartets

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

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• Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Hands, Way

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Murder in the Cathedral”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Expectations, Victory

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

  T. S. Eliot

  Issues, History, Cunning

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• 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

  Heart, Secret, Brain

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.226, Faber & Faber

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• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Important, Moved, Ifs

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• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beauty, Eye, Deceit

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• 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

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• The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, New Year, Spring

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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