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. ELIOTThe last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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?
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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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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Teach us to care and not to care
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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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