T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Poetry Quotes

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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In the end is my beginning.

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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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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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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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