T. S. Eliot
British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
Lived from: 1888 - 1965
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 26 september 1888 Died: 4 january 1965
Quotes 21 till 40 of 79.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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In my beginning is my end.
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In my end is my beginning.
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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It 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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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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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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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
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