T. S. Eliot Quotes, Immature Quotes, Mature Quotes

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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All time is unreedemable.

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

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