T. S. Eliot Quotes, Life Quotes, Pain Quotes

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so 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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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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