T. S. Eliot Quotes, Exaltation Quotes, Degrees Quotes

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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War among men defiles this world.

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

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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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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