T.S Eliot Quotes - Page 4

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
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Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine.There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson!You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae!That corpse you planted last year in your garden,Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
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There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
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There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
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We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.
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Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats' feet over broken glassIn our dry cellarShape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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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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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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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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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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In my end is my beginning.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
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For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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