T. S. Eliot

Francis Bacon: T. S. Eliot

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Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.: T. S. Eliot

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0147Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

All cases are unique and very similar to others.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: All cases are unique and very similar to others. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

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

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0139Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

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

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0138Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0137Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0136Z

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quotationsbook inserted: The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0135Z

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quotationsbook inserted: If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0134Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.: T. S. Eliot

2008-07-02T20:58:27.0132Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

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.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

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.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

There is no method but to be very intelligent.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: There is no method but to be very intelligent. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

In my beginning is my end.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: In my beginning is my end. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.: T. S. Eliot

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quotationsbook inserted: A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. --Quotation: Author--> T. S. Eliot