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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. — T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead. — Howard Jacobson

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool. — T. S. Eliot

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole. — T. S. Eliot

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney. — T. S. Eliot

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. — T. S. Eliot

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people. — T. S. Eliot

One starts an action simply because one must do something. — T. S. Eliot

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom — T. S. Eliot

And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end. — T. S. Eliot

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment. — T. S. Eliot

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. — T. S. Eliot

When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. — T. S. Eliot

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be. — George Eliot

We should not confuse information with knowledge. — T. S. Eliot

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair- — T. S. Eliot

He who was living is now dead.
We who were living are now dying. — T. S. Eliot

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms — T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them. — T. S. Eliot

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — T. S. Eliot

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. — T. S. Eliot

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. — George Eliot

We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on. — T. S. Eliot

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done. — George Eliot

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. — George Eliot

Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet - T S Eliot - used in The Book Of Peach — T. S. Eliot

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. — T. S. Eliot

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. — T. S. Eliot

Just be where you are. Right now. Be in this moment only. That's all that really counts ... One breath at a time. It's all we can control ... — Anne Eliot

Miss Brooke's large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking. — George Eliot

His laughter tinkled among the teacups. — T. S. Eliot

I'll make sure you forget every guy but me, Jess Jordan. And that's a promise I mean to keep.
Oh, that voice. — Anne Eliot

Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood. — T. S. Eliot

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. — T. S. Eliot

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — T. S. Eliot

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit. — T. S. Eliot

Art never improves, but ... the material of art is never quite the same. — T. S. Eliot

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot — Eugene H. Peterson

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — T. S. Eliot

Uncorsetted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. — T. S. Eliot

He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook. — Lev Grossman

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. — T. S. Eliot

I that was near your heart was removed therefrom — T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot

Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you. — George Eliot

A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot

A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass. — George Eliot

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. — T. S. Eliot

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. — T. S. Eliot

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. — T. S. Eliot

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — T. S. Eliot

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. — T. S. Eliot

One always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other. — George Eliot

It is worth dying to find out what life is. — T. S. Eliot

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. — George Eliot

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow. — T. S. Eliot

The pain of living and the drug of dreams
curl up the small soul in the window seat. — T. S. Eliot

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. — T. S. Eliot

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot — T. S. Eliot

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. — T. S. Eliot

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. — George Eliot

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot

We die with the dying;
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them. — T. S. Eliot

Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. — George Eliot

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me. — T. S. Eliot

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, — T. S. Eliot

My mind may be American but my heart is British. — T. S. Eliot

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us ... and we drown. — T. S. Eliot

Only through time time is conquered — T. S. Eliot

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

April is the cruelest month - - - - mixing memory and desire - - - — T. S. Eliot

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. — T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare? — T. S. Eliot

It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after. — George Eliot

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. — T. S. Eliot

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. — T. S. Eliot

So that's a make-up kiss? Let's have another fight soon. — Anne Eliot

Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; — T. S. Eliot

What is that noise? — T. S. Eliot

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. — T. S. Eliot

that which is only living
Can only die — T. S. Eliot

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. — T. S. Eliot

What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning. — T. S. Eliot