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Letter "T" » T.S. Eliot Quotes
«The intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings.»
«I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Enemies,
War
| Keywords:
alarming, approve, barbarously, developments, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, extermination, exterminations, point of view
«There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
contending, drought, eviscerate, eviscerated, flood, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, mirth, parch, parched, parching, The Drought, toil, upper, upper hand
«Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, equipment, imprecision, inarticulate, mess, raid, raids, shabbier, shabby, venture
«A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
baby-faced, black light, face the music, fiddled, strings, whistled
«Since golden October declined into sombre November / And the apples were gathered and stored, and the land became brown sharp points of death in a waste of water and mud.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
apples, brown, declined, gathered, mud, November, October, sharp-pointed, sharp, sombre, The Apples
«When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, / And puts a record on the gramophone.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
gramophone, paces, smoothes, stoops
«We must believe that 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not 'recollected' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
atmosphere, attending, concentration, consciously, distortion, formula, happen upon, inexact, passive, recollected, recollection, recollects, resulting, tranquil, tranquillity, unite
«For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
await, last year
«Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.»
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