T. S. Eliot Quotes, Climbing Quotes, Despair Quotes

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Where is the Life we lost in living?

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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