T. S. Eliot Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Agony Quotes

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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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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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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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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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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

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