T. S. Eliot Quotes, Climbing Quotes, Despair Quotes

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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For you know only a heap of broken images

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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For you know only a heap of broken images

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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