T. S. Eliot Quotes, Hope Quotes

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

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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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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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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