T. S. Eliot Quotes, War Quotes, Reality Quotes

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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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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Hurry up, please, its time.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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