T. S. Eliot Quotes, Mean Quotes, Rivers Quotes

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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In the end is my beginning.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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I can connect Nothing with nothing

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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