T. S. Eliot Quotes, Stealing Quotes

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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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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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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Teach us to care and not to care

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We shall not cease from exploration

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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