T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 7

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• When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ideas, Imagination, Framework

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• We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Men, Littles

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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  Love, Hope, Light

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

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• It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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  Death, Dying, Life Is

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

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• Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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  Time, Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• Love is most nearly itself
  When here and now cease to matter.
  Old men ought to be explorers
  Here or there does not matter
  We must be still and still moving
  Into another intensity
  For a further union, a deeper communion
  Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
  The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
  Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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  Life, Moving, Dark

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.99, LUMEN

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• Teach us to care and not to care

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  Care, Ash Wednesday, Teach

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 34 (1930)

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• If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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  Jealous, Pay, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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  Heart, Men, Hype

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

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  Education, School, Emotional

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• Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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  Moments, Shocking

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• If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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  Writing, Bangs, Ends

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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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  War, May, Ignored

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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• No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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  Fall, Reality, Ideas

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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  Causes, Lost, Lost Cause

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

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• No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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  Appreciation, Art, Generations

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Home is where one starts from.

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  Educational, Home, Sweet Home

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

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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  Life, Success, Coffee

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 51 (1917)

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• We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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  Fighting, Expectations, Triumph

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• The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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  Journey, Littles, Blind

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

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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  Knowledge, Organized Life, Too Much Information

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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  Lonely, Horse, Winter

  Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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  Friendship, Lost Friendship, Biting

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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