T. S. Eliot Quotes

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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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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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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War among men defiles this world.

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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