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 24 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.”

Art Ifs Occupation

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.”

Knows Enough Ought

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Melancholic

“All time is unreedemable.”

All Time

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Funny

“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”

Firsts Food

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Creative

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”

Art Art Is

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Creative

“Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.”

Culture Sake Aim

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Philosophical

“All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.”

Believe Moving Our Actions

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Wise

“Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.”

Men Expression Generations

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Wise

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”

Feelings Use Ordinary

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Lonely

“To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.”

People Children Country

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Wise

“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 a toast and tea.”

Vision Tea Window Panes

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Philosophical

“Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?”

Men Together White

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