T. S. Eliot Quotes, Life Quotes, Men Quotes

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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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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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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Home is where one starts from.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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