T. S. Eliot on acceptance
T. S. Eliot77 quotes“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it”
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For you know only a heap of broken images
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot This love is silent.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot
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