T. S. Eliot Quotes

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T. S. Eliot Quotes

All Philosophical Creative Wise Melancholic Spiritual 586 quotes · page 26 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Wise

“An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.”

Writing Editors Editing

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Spiritual

“Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.”

Inspirational Life Forever

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Philosophical

“Humankind can't stand too much reality.”

Reality Teaching

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Sad

“A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.”

Bridges Crowds

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Philosophical

“Human kind cannot bear much reality.”

Reality Humanity Bears

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Hopeful

“not fare well, but fare forward”

Wells

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Calm

“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow”

Winter Snow

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Nostalgic

“The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.”

Passion Humans Majority

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Wise

“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.”

Men Struggle Nature

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Philosophical

“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.”

Way Struggle Where You Are

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Philosophical

“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”

Reality Fall Essence

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Lonely

“They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.”

Voice Speak Awareness

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