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T. S. Eliot
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Graduation
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Experience
"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Best
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Life
"For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Faith
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Poetry
"I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Age
"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
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T. S. Eliot
Topic(s):
Poetry
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