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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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

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

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Knowledge, Desire

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

T. S. Eliot
Love, Past, Desire
1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

T. S. Eliot
Thinking, Agony, Desire

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

T. S. Eliot
Life, Love Is, Desire
T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.161, Faber & Faber

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

T. S. Eliot
Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

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