T. S. Eliot Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Ideas Quotes

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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In life there is not time to grieve long.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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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, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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Only through time time is conquered

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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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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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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