T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 17

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• Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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  Fire, Flames, Rose

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Desire itself is movement
  Not in itself desirable;
  Love is itself unmoving,
  Only the cause and end of movement,
  Timeless, and undesiring
  Except in the aspect of time
  Caught in the form of limitation
  Between un-being and being.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Desire

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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  Art, Facts, Events

  The Sacred Wood "Hamlet and His Problems" (1920).

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• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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  Business, Crowds, Today

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• Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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  Voice, Poetry, Humans

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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• Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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  New Beginnings, Feelings, Trying

  East Coker (1940) pt. 5

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• A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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  Attitude, Long, Environmental

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• No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Class, Desperate, Accepting

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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  Death, Skulls, Skins

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 1 (1919)

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• And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

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  Heart, Sea, Voice

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 195 (1930)

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• We took up
  our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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  War, Obedience, Instruction

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.551, Faber & Faber

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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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  Christmas, Children, Moving

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Philosophy, Discipline

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

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  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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  Mastery

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• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Wind, Pet

  "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses".

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• An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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  Writing, Editing, Editors

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• For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Soul

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• That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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  Inspirational, Life, Dancing

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.181, Faber & Faber

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• In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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  Women, Talking, Culture

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 13 (1917)

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• And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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  Coffee, Hours, Sunlight

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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