T. S. Eliot Quotes, Attachment Quotes, Self Quotes

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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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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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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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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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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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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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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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

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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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