“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.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: time
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Art never improves, but… the material of
“Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: art
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Home is where one starts from.
“Home is where one starts from.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
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For love would be love of the
“For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: faith
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Poetry may make us from time to
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: poetry
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Every experience is a paradox in that
“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. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
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Where is all the knowledge we lost
“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: knowledge
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: politics
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The business of the poet is not
“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: business
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Poetry is not a turning loose of
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: poetry
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Poetry should help, not only to refine
“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: poetry
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