T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 6

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• Home is where one starts from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Educational, Home, Sweet Home

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• People find a way in which they can say something.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Way

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• You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Life Death, Can Not

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• music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Thyme, Lasts

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

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Men, Hype

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Risk, Our Destiny

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.376, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Essence, Shadow

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Risk, Finding Yourself

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Ideas

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

  T. S. Eliot

  Jealous, Pay, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, People, Cocktail Parties

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

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• Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Needs

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Organization, Humanity, Progress

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Littles, Consciousness

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Planning, Traffic

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

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Sensible, Constant

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• life is long between the desire and the spasm.

  T. S. Eliot

  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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• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Holiday, Cat, Thinking

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

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• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Illusion, Disillusionment, Disillusion

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

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Kind

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Tired, Action

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

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