T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 9

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Passion

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• Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Political, Want

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  T. S. Eliot

  Witty, Humorous, Writing

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• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Events, Happened

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Past art is subject to change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Past, Art Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

  T. S. Eliot

  Culture, Sake, Aim

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Needs

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Order, Civilization, Language

  "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921)

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• The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Thinking, May

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

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• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

  T. S. Eliot

  Pain, Freedom, Liberty

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Artist, Individual Talent

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.85, Broadview Press

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• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

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• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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• The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Majority, Humans

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspiring, Courage, Risk

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• The wounded surgeon plies the steel
  That questions the distempered part;
  Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
  The sharp compassion of the healer's art
  Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Compassion, Hands

  'Four Quartets' 'East Coker' (1940) pt. 4

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• Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Times Past, Quartets

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

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• With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Kind

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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Wall, Hate

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• My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

  T. S. Eliot

  Trouble, Curtains, Up And Down

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• Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Snow, Covering

  The Waste Land l. 5 (1922)

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• Hurry up, please, its time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Please

  The Waste Land l. 169 (1922)

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• Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Writing, May

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