T. S. Eliot Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Dark Quotes

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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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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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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