T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cities Quotes, Rivers Quotes

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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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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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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