T. S. Eliot Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Fancy Quotes

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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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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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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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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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Teach us to care and not to care

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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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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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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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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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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Past art is subject to change.

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

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