4 Quotes by T.S. Eliot about change

  • Author T.S. Eliot
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    If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity.

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  • Author T.S. Eliot
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    Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity, instead of aiming to stimulate the life which produced that condition in its time. . . . a tradition without intelligence is not worth having . . .

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  • Author T.S. Eliot
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    We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.

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