T. S. Eliot Quotes

To make an end is to make a beginning.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Past art is subject to change.

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War among men defiles this world.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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All time is unreedemable.

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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