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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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• 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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• Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Pavement, Sunlight

  "La Figlia Che Piange" l. 3 (1917)

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• In my beginning is my end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

  T. S. Eliot

  All Time, Ifs

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

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• For you know only a heap of broken images

  T. S. Eliot

  Broken, Broken Images, Knows

  The Waste Land l. 21 (1922)

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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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• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Soul, Creation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Oysters, Talking

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 13 (1917)

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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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• So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

  T. S. Eliot

  Body, Speak, Should

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

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• Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Atheism, Happened

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot”, p.100, Faber & Faber

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• Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Envy, Envious

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

  T. S. Eliot

  Forgiveness, Corridors

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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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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• No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Produce

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.595, Faber & Faber

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• time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Might

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Thinking, Play

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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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• Love is the unfamiliar Name
  Behind the hands that wove
  The intolerable shirt of flame
  Which human power cannot remove.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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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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• The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

  T. S. Eliot

  Health, Consciousness, Young

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tradition

  "After Strange Gods". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 19), 1934.

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• Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Effort, Together

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Butterfly, Space, Doe

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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