T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 2

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• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Humility, Thinking

  "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

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• Can we only love
  Something created in our own imaginations?
  Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
  Then one is alone, and if one is alone
  Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
  And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Dream, Real

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Humorous, Way

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• We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Experience

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Technology, Information

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• Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Philosophical, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.76, Faber & Faber

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• Distracted from distraction by distraction

  T. S. Eliot

  Social Media, Distraction, Distracted

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

  T. S. Eliot

  Real, May, Turns

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• For most of us, there is only the unattended
  Moment, the moment in and out of time,
  The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
  The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
  Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
  That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
  While the music lasts

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Waterfalls, Lasts

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

  T. S. Eliot

  Behave

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• At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beach, Not Wasting Time, Enjoyed

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

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• Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Evil, Done

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• Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

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• We shall not cease from exploring,
  And the end of our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love Is, Mind Love, Bridges

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

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• Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of
  security and the delight of adventure.

  T. S. Eliot

  Adventure, Thinking, People

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• The darkness declares the glory of light.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Darkness, Glory

  "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

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• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Speak

  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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• To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Successful, Reality

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• What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

  T. S. Eliot

  Action, One Time

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• Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

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