T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes, Historical Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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We must learn to suffer more.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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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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