T. S. Eliot Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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

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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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