T. S. Eliot Quotes, Spring Quotes, Sunset Quotes

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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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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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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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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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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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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