Tag: T. S. Eliot
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot