T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fighting Quotes, People Quotes

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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Only through time time is conquered

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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

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

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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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 tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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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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