T. S. Eliot Quotes, Heart Quotes, Blood Quotes

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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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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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

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