T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 6

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• We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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  Experience, Different, Form

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

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• It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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  Destiny, Risk, Finding Yourself

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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  Fall, Reality, Ideas

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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  Memories, People, Cocktail Parties

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is the Life we lost in living?

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  Lost

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• Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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  Past, Littles, Consciousness

  1935 Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.

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• We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

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  Organization, Humanity, Progress

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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  Urban, Planning, Traffic

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• life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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  Long, Desire, Life Is

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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  World, Sensible, Constant

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• With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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  Men, Kind

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• The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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  Inspirational, Men, Artist

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

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• The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

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  Holiday, Cat, Thinking

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 1 (1939)

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

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

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• The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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  Time, Tired, Action

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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  Illusion, Disillusionment, Disillusion

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.403, Faber & Faber

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• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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  War, Reality, Ego

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• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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  Believe, Cat, Remarkable

  John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

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• Art is the escape from personality.

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  Art, Personality, Art Is

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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  Death, Dance, Recovery

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

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• You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Humiliation

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.348, Faber & Faber

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• not fare well, but fare forward

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  Wells

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 3 (1941)

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• Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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  Teaching, Reality, Too Much

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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.

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  Ideas, Imagination, Framework

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• The end is where we start from.

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  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

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

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