T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

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• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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  Knowledge, Technology, Information

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• All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

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  Ignorance

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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  Ends

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• Distracted from distraction by distraction

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  Social Media, Distraction, Distracted

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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• In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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  Order, Way, Quartets

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.96, LUMEN

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• The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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  Risk, Curious, Should

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• Talent imitates, genius steals.

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  Genius, Talent, Stealing

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• No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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  Aptitude, Study, Interest

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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  Definitions, Hell

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• Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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  Lying, Vision, Shadow

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• Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

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  Real, May, Turns

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

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  Behave

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

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  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

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

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• It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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  Perfect, Design, Needs

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

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  Blood, Ink, Purpose

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• I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

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  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.400, Faber & Faber

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• There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

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  Love, Family, Vocabulary

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• Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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  Men, Perfect, Confusion

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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  Exercise, People, Influence

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

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• We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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  Book, People, Enough

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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  Names, Toilets, Anagrams

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• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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  Negative, Nasty

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