T. S. Eliot Quotes, Heart Quotes, Blood Quotes

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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

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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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