T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes, Names Quotes

The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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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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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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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, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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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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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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