T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 8

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• In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

  T. S. Eliot

  Change, Men, Return

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.229, Faber & Faber

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• We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Sea, Voice

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

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• All cases are unique and very similar to others.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Originality, Cases

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Break, Burden

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

  T. S. Eliot

  Moments, Difficulty, Permanent

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Food, Firsts, Cheese

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• It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

  T. S. Eliot

  Nature, Struggle, Men

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• To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Way, Where You Are

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

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• Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Pain, Logic

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• Humankind can't stand too much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Teaching, Reality, Too Much

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• In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

  T. S. Eliot

  Years, Done, Lasts

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Choices, Way

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

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• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Forever

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Opposites, Independence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And right action is freedom From past and future also.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Past, Action

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  T. S. Eliot

  Truth, Character, Facts

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• There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

  T. S. Eliot

  Window Panes, Faces

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

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• For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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  Morning, Coffee, Spoons

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.383, Faber & Faber

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• When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Oxygen, Poetry

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.16, HMH

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• Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Clouds, Design, Accidents

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Years, Dying

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1133, Faber & Faber

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• Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

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