T. S. Eliot Quotes, Unique Quotes, Feelings Quotes

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

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

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

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In my beginning is my end.

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Only through time time is conquered

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

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