T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 10

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• Old men ought to be explorers.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Old Man, Explorers

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

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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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• In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

  T. S. Eliot

  Order, Way, Quartets

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

  T. S. Eliot

  Doors, May, Way

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, Horse, Winter

  Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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

  T. S. Eliot

  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.

  T. S. Eliot

  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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• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  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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• Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Blood, Theatre, Producers

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Expectations, Triumph

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• And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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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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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Feelings, Immature

  "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

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• Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  T. S. Eliot

  Care, Praying, Hours

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Occupation, Ifs

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.490, Yale University Press

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• I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reading, Exercise, Healthy

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• When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Done, Certain

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Healing, Past, Vitality

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• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hell, Always Alone, Figures

  The Cocktail Party act 1, sc. 3 (1950)

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• The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

  T. S. Eliot

  Age, Talent

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• Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Said, Knows

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

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