T. S. Eliot Quotes, Experience Quotes, Quartets Quotes

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

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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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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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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