T. S. Eliot quotes - page 11

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. (T. S. Eliot)
In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home. View quote
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih. View quote
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A penny for the Old Guy. View quote
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice. View quote
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen. View quote
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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends. View quote
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O perpetual revolution of configured stars, O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. 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? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. View quote
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen. View quote
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Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore. View quote
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action. (T. S. Eliot)
Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. View quote
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They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be. View quote
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What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards? View quote
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Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice. View quote
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Out of the meaningless practical shapes of all that is living or lifeless Joined with the artist's eye, new life, new form, new colour. Out of the sea of sound the life of music, Out of the slimy mud of words, out of the sleet and hail of verbal imprecisions, Approximate thoughts and feelings, words that have taken the place of thoughts and feelings, There spring the perfect order of speech, and the beauty of incantation. View quote
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession. View quote
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. View quote
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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime! View quote
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? View quote
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The poet's mind is in fact 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. (T. S. Eliot)
What is hell? 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. View quote
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Our emotions Are only "incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together. View quote
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