T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes, Thinking Quotes

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

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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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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

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A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

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The end is where we start from.

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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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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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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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