For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. ELIOTThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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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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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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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.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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For you know only a heap of broken images
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Teach us to care and not to care
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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.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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