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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 18

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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

Drinking, Drug, Gin

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

New York, Self, Boston

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Garden, Hair, Pavement

'La Figlia Che Piange' (1917)

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

Humility, Sea, House

1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Reality, Humanity, Bears

"In Light of India". Book by Octavio Paz, Chapter 1, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

Children, Sea, Two

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

Ignorance, Order, Way

Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

Confusion, Groups, Statistics

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Graduation, Christian, Men

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

Home, Temples

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

Exaltation, Degrees, Degradation

T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

Appreciation, Art, Poet

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Men, Car, Ribbons

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Suffering, Fancy, Gentle

"Preludes" l. 48 (1917)

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Art, Poetry, Return

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Book, Writing, Silence

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Men, Age, World

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

Dream, Vision, Higher

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry, Tests, Genuine

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Simple, Hands, Simplicity

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.453, Faber & Faber

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

Christianity, Graves, Admiring

1935 Religion and Literature.

Humankind cannot stand reality.

Reality, Humankind

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

Genius, Talent, Stealing

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

Life, Garden, Single Rose

T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

Giving, Ordinary, Alive

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