T. S. Eliot Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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