T. S. Eliot Quotes, Passion Quotes, Majority Quotes

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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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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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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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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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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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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