T. S. Eliot Quotes

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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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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