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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 3

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

Vanity, Doubt, Majority

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Survival, Shame

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

Travel, Adventure, Science

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

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Genius, Talent, Stealing

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Order, Way, Quartets

T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.96, LUMEN

To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

Behave

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Attitude, Creation, Wrong Attitude

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Rocks, Church, Failing

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

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

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Communication, Writing, Poetry

1929 Dante.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

Memories, Spring, Rain

The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

Lying, Vision, Shadow

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Thinking, Want, What You Want

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Inspirational, Music, Fear

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Real, May, Turns

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Exercise, People, Influence

T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Love, Struggle, Strange

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Circles, Understanding, Areas

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Definitions, Hell

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Kindness, Reality, Atheism

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

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Mountain, Feels, Waste Land

The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

Names, Toilets, Anagrams

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

Risk, Curious, Should

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

Love, Family, Vocabulary

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Blood, Ink, Purpose

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