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T S Eliot Quotes
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it cant be much good. - 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
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. - T S Eliot Quotes
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - 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
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. - 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
April is the cruellest month. - T S Eliot Quotes
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. - T S Eliot Quotes
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs 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
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T S Eliot Quotes
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - T S Eliot Quotes
Business today consists in persuading crowds. - T S Eliot Quotes
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. - T S Eliot Quotes
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T S Eliot Quotes
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They dont mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. - T S Eliot Quotes
Home is where one starts from. - T S Eliot Quotes
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. - T S Eliot Quotes
Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T S Eliot Quotes
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. - T S Eliot Quotes
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. - T S Eliot Quotes
I dont believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. - T S Eliot Quotes
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. - T S Eliot Quotes
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T S Eliot Quotes
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. - T S Eliot Quotes
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. - T S Eliot Quotes
If you arent in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T S Eliot Quotes
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. - T S Eliot Quotes
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. - T S Eliot Quotes
In my beginning is my end. - T S Eliot Quotes
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Much Part Passion Play Private Public Should
Something Then They Think Time Truths Understand
Violent When Worst
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