T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

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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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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

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

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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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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

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

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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

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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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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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