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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 11

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Forgiveness, Corridors

"Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

Poetry, Done, Certain

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

Enough, Ought, Knows

T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Self, Space, World

Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

Creative, Toil, Sifting

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

Body, Speak, Should

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In my beginning is my end.

Ends

Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Art, Thinking, Play

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

Life, Imagination, Only Love

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

All Time, Ifs

Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

Morning, Fear, Dust

The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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

Night, Effort, Together

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

Reading, Exercise, Healthy

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

Phrases, Ends, Epitaph

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Religion, Literature, Littles

"A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

Consequence

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

Night, Thinking, Nerves

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.56, Faber & Faber

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Care, Praying, Hours

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

Cat, Like You, Enough

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.32, Faber & Faber

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Men, Harder, Labor

Only through time time is conquered

Quartets

1935 Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Time, Past, Might

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Art, Personality, Produce

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.595, Faber & Faber

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

Life, Love Is, Flames

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Tradition

"After Strange Gods". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 19), 1934.

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