T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 4

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• The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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  Rocks, Church, Failing

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Influence

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Negative, Nasty

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• The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Successful, Reality

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, People, Enough

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

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• Can we only love
  Something created in our own imaginations?
  Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
  Then one is alone, and if one is alone
  Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
  And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Dream, Real

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• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  T. S. Eliot

  Culture, Benefits, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To make an end is to make a beginning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

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

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• With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Felt

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• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

  T. S. Eliot

  Errors, Self, Judging

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• When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ideas, Imagination, Framework

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• Do I dare disturb the universe?

  T. S. Eliot

  Fear, Clever, Dare

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 45 (1917)

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• Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Awakened, Dislike

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• In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Mind, Rooms

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• Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Thinking, Talking

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

  T. S. Eliot

  Real, Poetry Is, Assertion

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• Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

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  Meaningful, Running, Destiny

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• In life there is not time to grieve long.

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  Grief, Grieving, Long

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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  Light, Generosity, Dancing

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Thirds, Divides

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• In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

  T. S. Eliot

  Singing, Moonlight, Grass

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

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