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• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Paradox, Absolutes

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, Chapter 7, 1964.

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• The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Ordinary, Use

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.953, Faber & Faber

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• The winter evening settles down
  With smell of steaks in passageways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Food, Winter, Smell

  "Preludes" l. 1 (1917)

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• The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rats, Jew

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.45, Broadview Press

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• When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mind, Experience, Poet

  1921 Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.

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• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Sacrifice, Self

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

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• I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Sacrifice, Birth

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Alaska, Lovers

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

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• i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dust, Absence, Fear Of Death

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• He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

  T. S. Eliot

  Laughter, Irresponsible, Laughed

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Expression, Generations

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• Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, White, Together

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 5

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• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Agony, Desire

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• He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

  T. S. Eliot

  Names, Faces, Firsts

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• When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Creativity, Giving

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Personality, Individual Talent

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

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• In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Pain, Light

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Children, People

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• I've been born, and once is enough.

  T. S. Eliot

  Enough, Born

  Sweeney Agonistes (1932) p. 24

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• The work of creation is never without travail.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Art Is, Materials

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  T. S. Eliot

  Dark, Space, Vacant

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

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• People find a way in which they can say something.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Way

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• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

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

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