T. S. Eliot Quotes, Winter Quotes, Snow Quotes

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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

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

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

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not fare well, but fare forward

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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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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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