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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 4

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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Lonely, People, Laughing

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

Cat, Speak

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Men, Perfect, Confusion

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

Experience, Different, Form

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

At the still point, there the dance is.

Beautiful, Dance, Scene

'Four Quartets' 'Burnt Norton' (1936) pt. 2

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Time, Tired, Action

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

Aptitude, Study, Interest

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

Feelings, Mind, Rooms

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

Culture, Benefits, Should

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Long, Desire, Life Is

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

Meaningful, Running, Destiny

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

Death, Dying, Life Is

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

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

Christian, Prayer, Believe

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

Life, Dream, Real

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Real, Poetry Is, Assertion

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Men, Awakened, Dislike

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

Love, Cruelty

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Life, Life Death, Can Not

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

Stealing, Poet, Great Poet

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

Time, Past, Mind

T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.173, Faber & Faber

Where is the Life we lost in living?

Lost

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Intense Moments, Burning, Before And After

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

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

Art, Unique, Stealing Things

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

Lying, Knowledge, Desire

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

Love, Past, Desire

1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

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