T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance"
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance"
T. S. Eliot
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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"
T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
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"“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 Four Quartets
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"Home is where one starts from."
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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."
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"Immature poets imitate mature poets steal."
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"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."
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"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."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"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?"
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"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
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"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
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"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."
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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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"There is no method but to be very intelligent."
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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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"You are the music while the music lasts."
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"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
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