T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cracks Quotes, Break Quotes

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

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Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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I've been born, and once is enough.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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