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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 7

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All time is unreedemable.

All time is unreedemable.

All Time

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Doors, Return

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

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Health, Insanity, Despair

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

Teaching, Reality, Too Much

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Discipline, Political, Relaxation

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Love, Hope, Light

1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Reading, Poetry Is, Ifs

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Believe, Cat, Remarkable

John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

Past art is subject to change.

Art, Past, Art Is

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

Life, Moving, Dark

T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.99, LUMEN

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

Light, Invisible, Reminders

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

Time, Past, Quartets

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

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

Girl, Sea, Voice

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Heart, Men, Hype

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Morning, Coffee, Spoons

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.383, Faber & Faber

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Ideas, Imagination, Framework

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

Moments, Shocking

Teach us to care and not to care

Care, Ash Wednesday, Teach

"Ash-Wednesday" l. 34 (1930)

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Inspirational, Life, Forever

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Education, School, Emotional

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

Jealous, Pay, Should

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Faith, Inspiration, Voice

T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.46, Faber & Faber

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

War, May, Ignored

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.215, Faber & Faber

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

Fall, Reality, Ideas

"The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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