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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice (T S Eliot Quotes)
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth (T S Eliot Quotes)
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined (T S Eliot Quotes)
Signs are taken for wonders. / ‘We would see a sign!’ / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness (T S Eliot Quotes)
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses (T S Eliot Quotes)
Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death (T S Eliot Quotes)
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,But the torment of others remains an experienceUnqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.People change, and smile: but the agony abides (T S Eliot Quotes)
A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident (T S Eliot Quotes)
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed. (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)
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality (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)
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. (T S Eliot Quotes)
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. (T S Eliot Quotes)
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. (T S Eliot Quotes)
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. (T S Eliot Quotes)
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. (T S Eliot Quotes)
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. (T S Eliot Quotes)
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. (T S Eliot Quotes)
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. (T S Eliot Quotes)
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion. (T S Eliot Quotes)
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless (T S Eliot Quotes)
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. (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)
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T S Eliot Quotes)
I don’t know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god (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)
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. (T S Eliot Quotes)
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. (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)