You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it agian? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
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ELIOT When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our se... T.S. ELIOT The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror. T.S. ELIOT Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at th... T.S. ELIOT Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe... T.S. ELIOT Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv... T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T.S. ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu... T.S. ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. T.S. ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. T.S. ELIOT It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lov... T.S. ELIOT What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? T.S. ELIOT No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; / Am an attendant lord. T.S. ELIOT That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? T.S. ELIOT Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. T.S. ELIOT So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are... T.S. ELIOT He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in ... T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. T.S. ELIOT We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well... T.S. ELIOT Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death T.S. ELIOT And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions T.S. ELIOT Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe... T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe? T.S. ELIOT The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. by t... T.S. ELIOT Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air wh... T.S. ELIOT Pray for those who chose and oppose T.S. ELIOT I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Sha... T.S. ELIOT We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star... T.S. ELIOT Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T.S. ELIOT What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. T.S. ELIOT Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. T.S. ELIOT I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the... T.S. ELIOT The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also T.S. ELIOT There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within ... T.S. ELIOT The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human ... T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin. T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan... T.S. ELIOT All cases are unique and very similar to others. T.S. ELIOT Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them. T.S. ELIOT Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences... T.S. ELIOT