T. S. Eliot
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by T. S. Eliot:
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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.” -T. S. Eliot
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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” -T. S. Eliot
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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?” -T. S. Eliot
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“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.” -T. S. Eliot
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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” -T. S. Eliot
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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” -T. S. Eliot
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“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.” -T. S. Eliot
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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?” -T. S. Eliot
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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.” -T. S. Eliot
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“For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.” -T. S. Eliot
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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.” -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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“For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.” -T. S. Eliot
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“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
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“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.” -T. S. Eliot
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“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.” -T. S. Eliot
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“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.” -T. S. Eliot
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“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
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“Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.” -T. S. Eliot
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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. – T. S. Eliot
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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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