T. S. Eliot Quotes, Hints Quotes, Half Quotes

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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

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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

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Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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