T. S. Eliot Quotes, Age Quotes

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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not fare well, but fare forward

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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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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