T. S. Eliot Quotes, Phrases Quotes, Ends Quotes

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

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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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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 young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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