T. S. Eliot on distraction
T. S. Eliot77 quotes“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Teach us to care and not to care
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