T. S. Eliot Quotes, Risk Quotes, Curious Quotes

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

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

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

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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