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T S Eliot Quotes

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics Picture Quote #1

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing Picture Quote #1

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Picture Quote #1

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things Picture Quote #1

The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it Picture Quote #1

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Picture Quote #1

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, the church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins their world without God. I see it. I see it Picture Quote #1

Everyone’s alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I’m sure they don’t. Is that a delusion? Picture Quote #1

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them Picture Quote #1

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities Picture Quote #1

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. ‘Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. ‘What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? ‘I never know what you are thinking. Think Picture Quote #1

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still Picture Quote #1

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable Picture Quote #1

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead Picture Quote #1

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious Picture Quote #1

There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent Picture Quote #1

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth Picture Quote #1

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance Picture Quote #1

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing Picture Quote #1

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger Picture Quote #1

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century’s prostitution Picture Quote #1

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open Picture Quote #1

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things Picture Quote #1

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech Picture Quote #1

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps Picture Quote #1

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only Picture Quote #1

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Picture Quote #1

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended Picture Quote #1

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety Picture Quote #1

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics (T S Eliot Quotes) I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing (T S Eliot Quotes) Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T S Eliot Quotes) As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing (T S Eliot Quotes) Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things (T S Eliot Quotes) The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it (T S Eliot Quotes) Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow (T S Eliot Quotes) O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, the church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins their world without God. I see it. I see it (T S Eliot Quotes) Everyone’s alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I’m sure they don’t. Is that a delusion? (T S Eliot Quotes) Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them (T S Eliot Quotes) After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities (T S Eliot Quotes) My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. ‘Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. ‘What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? ‘I never know what you are thinking. Think (T S Eliot Quotes) Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still (T S Eliot Quotes) Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable (T S Eliot Quotes) No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead (T S Eliot Quotes) Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious (T S Eliot Quotes) There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent (T S Eliot Quotes) There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth (T S Eliot Quotes) Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance (T S Eliot Quotes) I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing (T S Eliot Quotes) We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger (T S Eliot Quotes) When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century’s prostitution (T S Eliot Quotes) We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open (T S Eliot Quotes) But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things (T S Eliot Quotes) Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech (T S Eliot Quotes) The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps (T S Eliot Quotes) Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only (T S Eliot Quotes) Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky (T S Eliot Quotes) Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended (T S Eliot Quotes) Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety (T S Eliot Quotes)

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