T. S. Eliot Quotes, Heart Quotes, Mind Quotes

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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

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I've been born, and once is enough.

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We should not confuse information with knowledge.

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