T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes, Thinking Quotes

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

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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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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

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I gotta use words to talk to you.

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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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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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