T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 6

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Planning, Traffic

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• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  T. S. Eliot

  Self, Space, World

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• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Invisible, Reminders

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Different, Birth

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 35 (1927)

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• You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

  T. S. Eliot

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Humiliation

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.348, Faber & Faber

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• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Emotional, Justice

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• music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Thyme, Lasts

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

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• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Poetry, Religion

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

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• But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Mystery, Happened

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.148, Faber & Faber

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• Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Essence, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Art is the escape from personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Art Is

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• We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

  T. S. Eliot

  Organization, Humanity, Progress

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Roles

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Holiday, Cat, Thinking

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 1 (1939)

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• If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

  T. S. Eliot

  Basketball, Want, Individual Talent

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• Here between the hither and the farther shore
  While time is withdrawn, consider the future
  And the past with an equal mind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

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

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

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

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• Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Illusion, Disillusionment, Disillusion

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.403, Faber & Faber

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• We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

  T. S. Eliot

  Doors, Return

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

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

  Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

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• We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reading, Poetry Is, Ifs

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• As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Patterns, Complicated

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

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• But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Discipline, Political, Relaxation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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