T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 9

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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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  Children, Wall, Hate

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• I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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  Reading, Winter, Night

  The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

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• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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  Self, Space, World

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• All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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  Unique, Originality, Cases

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hurry up, please, its time.

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  Time, Please

  The Waste Land l. 169 (1922)

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• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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  Games, Careers, May

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• Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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  Culture, Sake, Aim

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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  Food, Firsts, Cheese

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• The wounded surgeon plies the steel
  That questions the distempered part;
  Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
  The sharp compassion of the healer's art
  Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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  Art, Compassion, Hands

  'Four Quartets' 'East Coker' (1940) pt. 4

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• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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  Witty, Humorous, Writing

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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  Art, Mean, Expression

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

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• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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  People, Events, Happened

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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  Mean, Men, Age

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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  Religion, Literature, Littles

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

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• Here between the hither and the farther shore
  While time is withdrawn, consider the future
  And the past with an equal mind.

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  Time, Past, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• A people without history
  Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
  Of timeless moments.

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  Time, People, Patterns

  Little Gidding (1942) pt. 5

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• The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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  Life, Thinking, May

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.229, Faber & Faber

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• The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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  Mean, Rivers, Environmental

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• It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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  Life, Men, Might

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

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  Country, Independent, Men

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• Old men ought to be explorers.

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  Men, Old Man, Explorers

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

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• The only hope, or else despair
  Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
  To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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  Hope, Lying, Fire

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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  Doors, May, Way

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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  Girl, Sea, Voice

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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• In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

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  Order, Way, Quartets

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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