T. S. Eliot Quotes about Past

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

T. S. Eliot

Time, Past, Mind

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

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.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

T. S. Eliot

Past, Littles, Consciousness

1935 Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

T. S. Eliot

Time, Past, Escaping

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

Past art is subject to change.

T. S. Eliot

Art, Past, Art Is

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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.

T. S. Eliot

Time, Past, Quartets

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

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

T. S. Eliot

Philosophical, Past, Action

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

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

T. S. Eliot

Healing, Past, Vitality

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

T. S. Eliot

Past, Times Past, Quartets

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

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

T. S. Eliot

Time, Past, Might

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

T. S. Eliot

Past, Silence, Would Be

Collected Poems (1936) "Burnt Norton" pt. 2

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

T. S. Eliot

Past, Hints, Half

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