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Quotations by author » T.S. Eliot
American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965
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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet fath. But the faith, and the love, and the hope 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.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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.
Poetry
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Fear
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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."
Desire
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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In my beginning is my end.
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In my end is my beginning.
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In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.
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In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
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In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
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