T. S. Eliot Quotes, Writing Quotes, Editing Quotes

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

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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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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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