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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. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
From The Cocktail Party
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 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.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
From The Sacred Wood
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
From The Cocktail Party
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 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.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
From The Sacred Wood
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
From The Cocktail Party
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 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.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
From The Sacred Wood
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity