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 29 of 49

T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Confident

“Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.”

Able Time Judging

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

Lonely

“When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.”

Hands Hair Lovely

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Melancholic

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

Life Light

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Wise

“He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it”

Ideas Mind

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Peaceful

“And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching”

Motive Quartets Purification

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Wise

“We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.”

Men Littles Knowledge

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Happy

“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”

Talking Women

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Angry

“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”

Today Business

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Spiritual

“When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.”

Wind Cat Pet

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Lonely

“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”

Men World Age

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Philosophical

“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.”

Character Facts Truth

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Ambitious

“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”

Men Ambition Deception

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