T. S. Eliot Quotes

586 quotes · Poet, Playwright

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T. S. Eliot Quotes

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Creative

“I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.”

Suffering Fancy Gentle

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Wise

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”

Art Appreciation Poet

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Grateful

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”

Night Reading

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Grateful

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”

People Book

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Inspired

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

Inspirational Fear Dust

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Philosophical

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”

Fire Death

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Angry

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”

Men Dislike

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Lonely

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

People Television Entertainment

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Love

“A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.”

Wall Baby Halloween

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Wise

“We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.”

Believe Numbers Atmosphere

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Lonely

“The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.”

People Laughing Lonely

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Philosophical

“To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.”

Lying Desire Knowledge

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