T. S. Eliot Quotes, Age Quotes, Aging Quotes

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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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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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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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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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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