T. S. Eliot Quotes, Mother Quotes, Interesting Quotes

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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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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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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

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Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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