T. S. Eliot Quotes, Men Quotes, Law Quotes

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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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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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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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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