Top Quotes of T. S. Eliot
- “We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.” – T. S. Eliot
- “We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.” – T. S. Eliot
- “Birth, and copulation, and death; that’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks.” – T. S. Eliot
- “Love compels cruelty to those who do not understand love.” – T. S. Eliot
- “Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.” – T. S. Eliot
Top Quotes of T. S. Eliot
Quotes about Emotions by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot Quotes about Love and Life
T. S. Eliot Quotes for Literature
Quotes on Memories by T. S. Eliot
Knowledge Quotes by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s Experience Quotes
Quotes about Emotions by T. S. Eliot
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
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Our emotions are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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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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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes about Love and Life
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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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
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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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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end
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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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WI have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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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.
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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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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes for Literature
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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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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Quotes on Memories by T. S. Eliot
And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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So first, your memory I’ll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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What we know of other people’s only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
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Knowledge Quotes by T. S. Eliot
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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T. S. Eliot’s Experience Quotes
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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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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When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
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