T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fall Quotes, Heart Quotes

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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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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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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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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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

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Only through time time is conquered

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