T. S. Eliot Quotes, Feelings Quotes

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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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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In my beginning is my end.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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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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