T. S. Eliot Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Fear Quotes

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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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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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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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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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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For you know only a heap of broken images

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