T. S. Eliot Quotes, Air Quotes, Wings Quotes

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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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

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