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Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes
“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.”
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
“music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.”
“In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”
“And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
“Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.”
“A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)”
“A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.”
“The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.”
“There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.”
“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”
“In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.”
“Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”