T. S. Eliot Quotes, Noise Quotes, Window Quotes

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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

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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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

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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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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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