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T. S. Eliot Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Thomas_Stearns_Eliot_by_Lady_Ottoline_Morrell_%281934%29.jpg/220px-Thomas_Stearns_Eliot_by_Lady_Ottoline_Morrell_%281934%29.jpg)
An American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Here are some famous quotes by T. S. Eliot.
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Poetry is a mug's game.
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In my beginning is my end.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
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Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Some editors are failed writers but so are most writers.
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One starts an action simply because one must do something.
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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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If you aren't in over your head how do you know how tall you are?
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What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
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Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
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The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
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When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion and so is our religion.
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What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet like the asthmatic struggling for breath so the lover must struggle for words.
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April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
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You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
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April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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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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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.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
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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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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.
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Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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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.''
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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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.