T. S. Eliot Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Dark Quotes

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.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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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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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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