Tag: T. S. Eliot
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
T. S. Eliot
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In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
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Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot