T. S. Eliot citations (270 citations, Page 6)

Variante: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets

“If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

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“Grishkin is nice: her
Russian eye is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Poems

"Whispers of Immortality"; "Grishkin" has been identified by Ezra Pound as having been "Serafima Astafieva" a Russian dancer.
Poems (1920)

“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

The Naming of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"
What will you answer? "We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Fortunate the man who, at the right moment meets the right friend; fortunate also the man who at the right moment meets the right enemy. I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival of culture. One needs the enemy… A country within which the divisions have goon too far is a danger to itself: a country which is too well united - whether by nature or by device, by hounest purpose or by fraud and oppression - is a menace to others.”

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Notes towards the definition of culture(1948)

“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.”

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Introduction to Pascal’s Pensées

“Because I do not hope to know
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again”

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Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“The soul of Man must quicken to creation.”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Redeem
The time. Redeem
The unread vision in the higher dream
While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.”

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Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.
Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 385 et seq.

“O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 320 et seq.

“Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Poems

"The Hippopotamus"
Poems (1920)

“O Light Invisible, we praise Thee!
Too bright for mortal vision.”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

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