T. S. Eliot Quotes

To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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