T. S. Eliot Quotes

586 quotes · Poet, Playwright

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T. S. Eliot Quotes

All Philosophical Creative Wise Melancholic Spiritual 586 quotes · page 22 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

Book Knows Said

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Lonely

“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.”

Hell Figures Always Alone

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Spiritual

“Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”

Light Invisible

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Philosophical

“All cases are unique and very similar to others.”

Unique Cases

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Nostalgic

“So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.”

Should Body Speak

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Thoughtful

“And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.”

Hands Yellow Window Panes

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Wise

“The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.”

Art Roles

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Spiritual

“Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.”

Waiting Meditation

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Creative

“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.”

Mind Poet Experience

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Creative

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”

Should Helping Language

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Philosophical

“Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.”

Taken Darkness Wonder

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Melancholic

“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still”

Air Wings Dry

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