T. S. Eliot Quotes, Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

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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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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