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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 2

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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

Winter, Waterfalls, Lasts

Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Philosophical, Humility, Thinking

"Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Life, Fake People, Peace

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Creativity, Hands, Creative

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Social Media, Distraction, Distracted

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

Adventure, Thinking, People

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Negative, Nasty

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Knowledge, Technology, Information

We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

Love Is, Mind Love, Bridges

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

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

People, Evil, Done

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Experience

1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

Light, Darkness, Glory

"The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

" Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Funny, Humorous, Way

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Poetry, Feelings, May

T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Ignorance

T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

Fall, Philosophical, Shadow

T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.76, Faber & Faber

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

Action, One Time

To make an end is to make a beginning.

Ends

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

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Work, Poetry, Trying

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

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

World, Thirds, Divides

Do I dare disturb the universe?

Fear, Clever, Dare

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 45 (1917)

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