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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
T. S. Eliot
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
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
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