T. S. Eliot Quotes, Rats Quotes

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

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

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

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

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With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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Only through time time is conquered

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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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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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; 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 toast and tea.

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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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