T. S. Eliot Quotes

In the end is my beginning.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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Past art is subject to change.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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Where is the Life we lost in living?

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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