T. S. Eliot Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Literature Quotes

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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The end is in the beginning.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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