The best Quotes by T. S. Eliot

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The best Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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Ending Beginning

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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Media Television

...and i knew nothing,
looking into the heart of light, the silence.

The Waste Land

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Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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Inspiration Creativity

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

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I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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Ethel: "One day the entire family will be reunited in the Garden of Eden."
"Oh, like heaven?"
Ethel: "No, it's in Missouri."
"Oh. Eden's got a lot of methheads."

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It's true, man.

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Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

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Power Responsibility Strength

When you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours, everything feels not quite normal, because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified. The truth is, you don't know what you feel except you know what kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable and you weren't ready for it.

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Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick.

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Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

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In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

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Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

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Life Risk Safety

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

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I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

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I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

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Act on inspiration when it strikes.

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Creativity is limitless - for better or worse.

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April is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for three months and not doing any for the next nine.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

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