T. S. Eliot Quotes

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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Where is the Life we lost in living?

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

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

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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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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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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