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

Motivated

“Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.”

Writing Running May

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Spiritual

“To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”

Believe Reality Successful

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Courageous

“Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.”

War Passion

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Calm

“Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.”

Night Together

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Courageous

“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”

Inspiring Risk Courage

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Love

“So the lover must struggle for words.”

Struggle Lovers

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Philosophical

“Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.”

Ends Phrases

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Thoughtful

“What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.”

Mean May Poetry

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Wise

“A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.”

Philosophy Understanding Effort

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Grateful

“Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall”

Spring Paris Sunset

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Spiritual

“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”

Thinking Desire Agony

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Spiritual

“Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.”

Past Time Escaping

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