T. S. Eliot Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Long Quotes

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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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.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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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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And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

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

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