For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. ELIOTImmature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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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.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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