T. S. Eliot quotes - page 13

The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you, The desert is in the heart of your brother. (T. S. Eliot)
And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places. View quote
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We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work. View quote
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I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. View quote
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Books. Cats. Life is good. View quote
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We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace. View quote
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Hell is oneself, Hell is alone. View quote
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And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions. View quote
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I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. View quote
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. View quote
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And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. (T. S. Eliot)
This is the time of tension between dying and birth The place of solitude where three dreams cross Between blue rocks. View quote
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare [But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair! ] It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume? :And how should I begin? I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. View quote
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Signs are taken for wonders. "We would see a sign!”. View quote
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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" View quote
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Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us. View quote
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! View quote
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London. View quote
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? View quote
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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. View quote
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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories. (T. S. Eliot)
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. View quote
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. View quote
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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. View quote
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The end is in the beginning. View quote
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