T. S. Eliot Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Literature Quotes

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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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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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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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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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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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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