"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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Quotes by T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot, born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, was a pioneering figure in modernist poetry and a profound influence on 20th-century literature. Notable for works such as "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot's exploration of fragmented identities and existential despair reshaped poetic expression. His innovative use of language and form coupled with deep philosophical and spiritual themes earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot's legacy endures, inspiring generations of writers and thinkers.
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"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
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."
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"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
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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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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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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."
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."
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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."
T. S. Eliot"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."
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"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."
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"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
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