T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cities Quotes, Rivers Quotes

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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April is the cruellest month.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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

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Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

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If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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