T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 4

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

  T. S. Eliot

  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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• 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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• 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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• The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

  T. S. Eliot

  Circles, Understanding, Areas

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• To make an end is to make a beginning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

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

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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 each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Knowledge, Desire

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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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• I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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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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• In life there is not time to grieve long.

  T. S. Eliot

  Grief, Grieving, Long

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Thirds, Divides

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• People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Wish, Want

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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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• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Meaningful, Running, Destiny

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• Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Cruelty

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the mountains, there you feel free.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mountain, Feels, Waste Land

  The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Generosity, Dancing

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

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• Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Health, Insanity, Despair

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All time is unreedemable.

  T. S. Eliot

  All Time

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• Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Awakened, Dislike

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