813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot



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    An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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    Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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    Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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    In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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    Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

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