Quotes by T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic

Lived from: 1888 - 1965

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 26 september 1888 Died: 4 january 1965

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  • Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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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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  • Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
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  • People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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  • So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
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  • Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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  • Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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  • Television 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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  • The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
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  • The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
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  • The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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  • The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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  • The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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  • The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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  • The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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  • The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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  • There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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  • There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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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.
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  • Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
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