T. S. Eliot Quotes, Differences Quotes, Posing Quotes

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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The end is in the beginning.

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

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