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T. S. Eliot Quotes about Time

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

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

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.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

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.

Time, Past, Escaping

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

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)

Hurry up, please, its time.

Time, Please

The Waste Land l. 169 (1922)

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

Time, People, Patterns

Little Gidding (1942) pt. 5

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

Time, Past, Might

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

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Time, Believe, Thinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Inspirational, Time, Poetry

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

Time, Judging, Able

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

Time, Hair, Wonder

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

Time, Winter, Journey

"Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

There will be time to murder and create.

Time, Window Panes, Murder

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

But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

Daughter, Time, Spring

The Waste Land l. 196 (1922)

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

Goodbye, Time, Ends

T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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