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 25 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.”

Seems Experience Quartets

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Lonely

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.”

Thinking Loneliness Poetry

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Wise

“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”

Wise Know How

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Grateful

“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”

Literature Library

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Melancholic

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”

Thinking Believe Time

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Calm

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”

Past Would Be Silence

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Philosophical

“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.”

Half Hints

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Inspired

“I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.”

Thinking Men

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Angry

“Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.”

People Envy Envious

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Spiritual

“We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.”

Heart Secret Brain

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Wise

“Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible”

Writing Important Littles

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Thoughtful

“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”

Thinking Art Play

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