T. S. Eliot Quotes, Phrases Quotes, Ends Quotes

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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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 must learn to suffer more.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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

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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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