T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• Love is most nearly itself
  When here and now cease to matter.
  Old men ought to be explorers
  Here or there does not matter
  We must be still and still moving
  Into another intensity
  For a further union, a deeper communion
  Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
  The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
  Of the petrel and the porpoise.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Moving, Dark

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.99, LUMEN

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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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

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

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• Art is the escape from personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Art Is

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• We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reading, Poetry Is, Ifs

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• The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

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

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• not fare well, but fare forward

  T. S. Eliot

  Wells

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

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• If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Bangs, Ends

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• But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Mystery, Happened

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.148, Faber & Faber

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• Good poets borrow, great poets steal

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing, Poet, Great Poet

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• Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

  T. S. Eliot

  Doors, Return

  "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

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• Teach us to care and not to care

  T. S. Eliot

  Care, Ash Wednesday, Teach

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 34 (1930)

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

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

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, May, Ignored

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

  Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

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• No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• Humankind can't stand too much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Teaching, Reality, Too Much

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• The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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  Journey, Littles, Blind

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

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• Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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  Clouds, Design, Accidents

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Oxygen, Poetry

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.16, HMH

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