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 27 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”

Thinking Jesus Friday

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence”

Past Perception Historical

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Sad

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”

Sea Should Have

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Spiritual

“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.”

Soul Gates

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Wise

“The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.”

Differences Statesmen Posing

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Courageous

“If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.”

Should Pay Jealous

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Spiritual

“You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.”

Life Can Not

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Spiritual

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

Health Despair

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Grateful

“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.”

Peace Native American Grandchildren

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Hopeful

“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.”

Faith Mystery Happened

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Grateful

“Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.”

Past Healing

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Philosophical

“Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-”

Hair Sunlight

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