T. S. Eliot Quotes, Running Quotes, Home Quotes

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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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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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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In the end is my beginning.

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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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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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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