T. S. Eliot Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Editors Quotes

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

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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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