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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious (T S Eliot Quotes)
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself (T S Eliot Quotes)
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him (T S Eliot Quotes)
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 (T S Eliot Quotes)
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 (T S Eliot Quotes)
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream (T S Eliot Quotes)
No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job... Poetry.. Remains one person talking to another... No poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic (T S Eliot Quotes)
Some one said: The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. Precisely, and they are that which we know (T S Eliot Quotes)
It is not the greatness, the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts (T S Eliot Quotes)
And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls (T S Eliot Quotes)
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn’t just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I’m mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names (T S Eliot Quotes)
The one thing to do is to do nothing. Wait... You will find that you survive humiliation and that’s an experience of incalculable value (T S Eliot Quotes)
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing (T S Eliot Quotes)
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self (T S Eliot Quotes)
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake (T S Eliot Quotes)
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence (T S Eliot 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 (T S Eliot Quotes)
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one’s age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth (T S Eliot Quotes)
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions (T S Eliot Quotes)
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution (T S Eliot Quotes)
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster (T S Eliot Quotes)
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be (T S Eliot Quotes)
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change (T S Eliot Quotes)
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency (T S Eliot Quotes)
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone (T S Eliot Quotes)
The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait... You will find that you survive humiliation and hat’s an experience of incalculable value (T S Eliot Quotes)
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down (T S Eliot Quotes)
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better (T S Eliot Quotes)
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 (T S Eliot Quotes)
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist (T S Eliot Quotes)