T. S. Eliot Quotes

Only through time time is conquered

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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I've been born, and once is enough.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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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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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; 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 toast and tea.

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