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Letter "T" » T.S. Eliot Quotes
«When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
evening, patient, spread, spread out, table
«It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life.»
«And we must think no further of you.»
«A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.»
«The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
Dead language, tongued
«Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.»
«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.»
«I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.»
«In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.»
«I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet fath. But the faith, and the love, and the hope 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.»
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