T. S. Eliot Quotes, Singing Quotes, Moonlight Quotes

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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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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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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We must learn to suffer more.

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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

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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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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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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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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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