T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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

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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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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

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