T. S. Eliot Quotes, Land Quotes, Honor Quotes

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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We should not confuse information with knowledge.

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