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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 10

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Hell, Always Alone, Figures

The Cocktail Party act 1, sc. 3 (1950)

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

Hair, Pavement, Sunlight

"La Figlia Che Piange" l. 3 (1917)

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Hope, Lying, Fire

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

Art, Personality, Roles

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Self, May, Patterns

T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.180, Faber & Faber

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

Time, People, Patterns

Little Gidding (1942) pt. 5

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

War, Reality, Ego

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

Passion, Heart, Sight

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.31, Faber & Faber

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Order, Way, Quartets

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Blood, Theatre, Producers

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Book, Said, Knows

The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

Dog, Cat

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Old men ought to be explorers.

Men, Old Man, Explorers

Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Art, Mean, Expression

The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

Unique, Feelings, Immature

"Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Doors, May, Way

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

People, Envy, Envious

T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.12, Faber & Faber

Art is the escape from personality.

Art, Personality, Art Is

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

Men, Soul, Creation

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Mean, Men, Age

For you know only a heap of broken images

Broken, Broken Images, Knows

The Waste Land l. 21 (1922)

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

Sky, Sawdust, Evening

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 1 (1917)

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

Country, Independent, Men

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

Life, Men, Might

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

Age, Talent

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