T. S. Eliot Quotes, Dog Quotes

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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

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

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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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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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not fare well, but fare forward

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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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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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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