T. S. Eliot Quotes, Love Quotes, Struggle Quotes

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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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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All time is unreedemable.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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