T. S. Eliot Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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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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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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