T. S. Eliot Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Optimism Quotes

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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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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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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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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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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