T. S. Eliot Quotes, Stealing Things Quotes, Immature Quotes

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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The end is in the beginning.

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

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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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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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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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