T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Poetry Quotes

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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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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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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Where is the Life we lost in living?

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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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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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

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When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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