T. S. Eliot Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Ice Quotes

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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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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Home is where one starts from.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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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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Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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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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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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