Tag: T. S. Eliot
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
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The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot
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Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot