T. S. Eliot Quotes

In the end is my beginning.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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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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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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