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T. S. ELIOT
T. S. ELIOT
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot 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.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot 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.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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