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T. S. Eliot
American
Poet
Born:
Sep 26
,
1888
Died:
Jan 4
,
1965
Knowledge
Life
Poet
Time
Will
You
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
Struggle
Strange
Words
Lover
Breath
Asthmatic
Must
Struggling
Like
Romantic
Inadequate
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.
T. S. Eliot
Love
Hope
Faith
Waiting
Wrong Thing
Would
Would-Be
Wrong
Thing
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
Me
Man
Heart
Wicked
Desperately
All Things
Above
Excellent
Deliver
Lord
Deceitful
Intention
Impure
Things
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
Year
He
New
Tiger
Springs
New Year
Us
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
Silence
Own
Every
Vain
Too
Books
Distracted
Seeking
Write
Emptiness
Dodging
His
Being
After
Elevation
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
Knowledge
You
Matter
Degree
Say
Finger
Invariably
Simplest
Put
Know
Graduation
Cannot
Your
Even
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot
Every
Difficulties
Our
Must
Somehow
Permanent
Always
Dealt
Moment
In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
Beginning
End
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.
T. S. Eliot
Life
Time
Game
Value
Poet
Nothing
Must
Poetry
He
Written
Feel
Messed
Messed Up
Sure
Permanent
Always
His
Up
Quite
May
Mug
Ever
Wasted
Things
Fundamentally
Career
Honest
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot
Important
Possible
Poets
Write
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Little
Thing
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
Some
Writers
Failed
Most
Editors
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
Personality
Progress
Self-Sacrifice
Artist
Extinction
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
Religion
Too Much
Too
Our
Know
Substitute
Literature
Little
Much
Convinced
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
Trouble
Down
Greatest
Up
Up And Down
Getting
Curtain
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
Poet
Ought
Bad
Unconscious
He
Where
Conscious
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
T. S. Eliot
You
Human Being
Mother
Hatred
Pour
Young
Baby
Out
Fellow
Call
Dear
Hear
Scorn
Cup
Human
Being
Fullest
Desire
Drain
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
You
Playwriting
Tell
Until
Least
Blood
Gets
Stop
Public
Producers
Your
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
Emotions
Will
Poet
Year
Must
Seek
He
New
Beyond
Alter
His
Survive
Any
Different
Influences
Literary
Different Emotions
To Survive
Express
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