Quotes By Person: T.S. Eliot

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
Dust in sunlight and memory in corners
Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land.”

-A Song For Simeon, T.S. Eliot

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“It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.”

-After Strange Gods, T.S. Eliot

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“Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious
of nothing-
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without
love,
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.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing.”

-East Coker, T.S. Eliot

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“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.”

-Little Gidding V, Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot

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“THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me 5
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.”

-Morning at the Window, T.S. Eliot

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“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks;
Birth, copulation and death.”

-Sweeney Agonistes, T.S. Eliot

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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.”

-The Cocktail Party, T.S. Eliot

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“There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish - which is not that of the child
For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration, but an angel.”

-The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, T.S. Eliot

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“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”

-The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot

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“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”

-The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

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