T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 2

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• Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Men, Forget

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• For most of us, there is only the unattended
  Moment, the moment in and out of time,
  The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
  The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
  Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
  That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
  While the music lasts

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Waterfalls, Lasts

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of
  security and the delight of adventure.

  T. S. Eliot

  Adventure, Thinking, People

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Experience

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

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• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Struggle, Strange

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

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• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Want, What You Want

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• A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Creation, Wrong Attitude

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

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• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Feelings, May

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• We shall not cease from exploring,
  And the end of our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love Is, Mind Love, Bridges

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Survival is your strength not your shame.

  T. S. Eliot

  Survival, Shame

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• The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

  T. S. Eliot

  Vanity, Doubt, Majority

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Humorous, Way

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• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Kindness, Reality, Atheism

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

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• At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beach, Not Wasting Time, Enjoyed

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• The darkness declares the glory of light.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Darkness, Glory

  "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

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• Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

  Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

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• Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

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• Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Philosophical, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.76, Faber & Faber

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Men, Library

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• The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

  T. S. Eliot

  Blood, Ink, Purpose

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• My name is only an anagram of toilets.

  T. S. Eliot

  Names, Toilets, Anagrams

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