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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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• 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.

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  Art, Oxygen, Poetry

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

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• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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  Light, Invisible, Reminders

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

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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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• 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.

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  Art, Pain, Logic

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• Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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  Creative, Toil, Sifting

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

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  Cracks, Break, Burden

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

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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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• 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.

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  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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

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  Change, Men, Return

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

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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.

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  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

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

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

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  Moments, Difficulty, Permanent

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

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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.

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  Struggle, Way, Where You Are

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

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• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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  Years, Different, Emotion

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

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  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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• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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  Peace, War, Passion

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

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  Window Panes, Faces

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

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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.

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  Order, Civilization, Language

  "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921)

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

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  Death, Different, Birth

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

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

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  Philosophical, Past, Action

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

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

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  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.

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  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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

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  Art, Personality, Roles

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

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  Trouble, Curtains, Up And Down

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