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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 8

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Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

Educational, Home, Sweet Home

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

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

Food, Firsts, Cheese

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

Unique, Originality, Cases

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Life, Success, Coffee

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 51 (1917)

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

Cracks, Decay, Slides

Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Knowledge, Organized Life, Too Much Information

"Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship, Lost Friendship, Biting

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

Journey, Littles, Blind

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

Change, Men, Return

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.229, Faber & Faber

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Moments, Difficulty, Permanent

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

Cracks, Break, Burden

Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

Peace, War, Passion

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

Art, Pain, Logic

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

Philosophical, Past, Action

1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

Window Panes, Faces

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Witty, Humorous, Writing

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Years, Done, Lasts

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

Writing, Bangs, Ends

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Running, Opposites, Independence

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Death, Years, Dying

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1133, Faber & Faber

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

Writing, Poetry, Feelings

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

Passion, Majority, Humans

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Art, Oxygen, Poetry

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.16, HMH

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

Giving, Political, Want

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