T. S. Eliot Quotes, Soul Quotes, Gates Quotes

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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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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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

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