T. S. Eliot Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Literature Quotes

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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I can connect Nothing with nothing

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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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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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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