T. S. Eliot Quotes, Taken Quotes, Darkness Quotes

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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In life there is not time to grieve long.

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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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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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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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