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T S Eliot Quotes

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you Picture Quote #1

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you Picture Quote #1

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form Picture Quote #1

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden Picture Quote #1

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man Picture Quote #1

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life Picture Quote #1

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present Picture Quote #1

That meddling in other people’s affairs... formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention Picture Quote #1

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion Picture Quote #1

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity Picture Quote #1

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Today, you’re halfway to 100! Here’s to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! Picture Quote #1

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn Picture Quote #1

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times... certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language Picture Quote #1

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest Picture Quote #1

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl Picture Quote #1

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are Picture Quote #1

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely Picture Quote #1

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again Picture Quote #1

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word Picture Quote #1

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me Picture Quote #1

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting Picture Quote #1

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you (T S Eliot Quotes) If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you (T S Eliot Quotes) We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form (T S Eliot Quotes) Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden (T S Eliot Quotes) The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man (T S Eliot Quotes) To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life (T S Eliot Quotes) A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give (T S Eliot Quotes) 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 (T S Eliot Quotes) Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present (T S Eliot Quotes) That meddling in other people’s affairs... formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention (T S Eliot Quotes) Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion (T S Eliot Quotes) Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity (T S Eliot Quotes) Today, you’re halfway to 100! Here’s to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! (T S Eliot Quotes) The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn (T S Eliot Quotes) Yeats was the greatest poet of our times... certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language (T S Eliot Quotes) A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest (T S Eliot Quotes) When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered (T S Eliot Quotes) 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 (T S Eliot Quotes) When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl (T S Eliot Quotes) Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are (T S Eliot Quotes) Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius (T S Eliot Quotes) 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 (T S Eliot Quotes) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely (T S Eliot Quotes) When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again (T S Eliot Quotes) This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word (T S Eliot Quotes) All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment (T S Eliot Quotes) 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 (T S Eliot Quotes) 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 (T S Eliot Quotes) I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me (T S Eliot Quotes) For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting (T S Eliot Quotes)

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