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T. S. Eliot


American
September 26, 1888
Poet
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So the lover must struggle for words.


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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.


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Tags: Very Much Cannot
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.


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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.


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Tags: He Us New
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.


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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?


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Tags: You Know Your
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Tags: Always Our Every
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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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Tags: Who Out Will
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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Tags: Being Every Own
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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Tags: Best Part Become
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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Tags: Time Know Our
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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Tags: Will He Any
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Tags: Time Good You
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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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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Tags: Poetry Who Know