T.S. Eliot
Poet
1888-09-26 – 1965-01-04
T. S. Eliot was a poet, critic, and playwright who became a leading figure of literary modernism. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
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How wild it was, to let it be.
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How wild it was, to let it be.
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We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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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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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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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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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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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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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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