T. S. Eliot Quotes, Religious Quotes, Men Quotes

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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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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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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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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