T. S. Eliot Quotes, Two Quotes, Doubt Quotes

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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We should not confuse information with knowledge.

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Past art is subject to change.

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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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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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

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

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