T. S. Eliot Quotes, Race Quotes, Creative Quotes

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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

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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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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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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

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

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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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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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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