T. S. Eliot Quotes, Games Quotes, Careers Quotes

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

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In my beginning is my end.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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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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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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April is the cruellest month.

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We must learn to suffer more.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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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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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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