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• And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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  Wonder, Dare

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

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• One starts an action simply because one must do something.

  T. S. Eliot

  Action, Industry

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Heart, Eye

  T.S. Eliot “My Own Wasteland”, Lisa Lee

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• The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Doors, Want

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.195, Faber & Faber

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• I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Rivers, House

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  T. S. Eliot

  Evil, Wickedness, Way

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Crafts, Conscious

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Rats

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 2

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

  T. S. Eliot

  Purification, Motive, Quartets

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  T. S. Eliot

  Real, Views, Point Of View

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• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.

  T. S. Eliot

  Knows

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fashion, Leaving, Way

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 2 (1940)

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• The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Immature, Mature, Poet

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• And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Hair, Wonder

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

  T. S. Eliot

  Sunset, Skirts, Trails

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Heart, Singing

  "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" l. 35 (1919)

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

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  Two, Doubt, Progress

  Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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  Greatness, Ice, Cake

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

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• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ambition, Men, Deception

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, Burning

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Here were decent godless people;
  Their only monument the asphalt road
  And a thousand lost golf balls.

  T. S. Eliot

  Golf, People, Balls

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 3 (1934)

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• Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

  T. S. Eliot

  Drinking, Drug, Gin

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• Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Mean, Way

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

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