T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Expectations Quotes

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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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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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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War among men defiles this world.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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