t.s. eliot

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Some kind of a T

[Aylen]

First impression was ILI, awhile back. Haven't thought about it since, until now.

"T.S. Eliot on the auditory imagination:


“What I call the ‘auditory imagination’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word; sinking to the most primitive and forgotten, returning to the origin and bringing something back, seeking the beginning and the end. It works through meanings, certainly, or not without meanings in the ordinary sense, and fuses the old and obliterated and the trite, the current, and the new and surprising, the most ancient and most civilized mentality.”"

T.S. ELIOT QUOTES

All dash to and fro in motor cars,Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T.S. ELIOT, The Waste Land Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. T.S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. T.S. ELIOT, Gerontion I journeyed to London, to the time kept City,Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.There I was told: we have too many churches,And too few chop-houses. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock The True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. T.S. ELIOT, The Hippopotamus Endless invention, endless experiment,Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The lawn Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn,The sad intangible who grieve and yearn.... T.S. ELIOT, To Walter de la Mare This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. ELIOT, The Hollow Men In my beginning is my end. T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker," Four Quartets War is not a life: it is a situation,One which may neither be ignored nor accepted. T.S. ELIOT, A Note on War Poetry I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. ELIOT, "Dante" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. ELIOT, preface, Transit of Venus Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral The soul of Man must quicken to creation. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. ELIOT, The Sacred Wood There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;There will be time to murder and create,And time for all the works and days of hands,That lift and drop a question on your plate;Time for you and time for me,And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions,Before the taking of a toast and tea. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The lot of man is ceaseless labor,Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. ELIOT, Tradition and the Individual Talent One thing you cannot know:The sudden extinction of every alternative,The unexpected crash of the iron cataract.You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.You only know what it is not to hope:You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you. T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. T. S. ELIOT, Time Magazine, Oct. 23, 1950 No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. T. S. ELIOT, The Music of Poetry When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? T. S. ELIOT, The Rock The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land Human kind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard;Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word. T. S. ELIOT, Ash-Wednesday Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock I grow old ... I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In life there is not time to grieve long. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion Unreal City,Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T. S. ELIOT, Four Quartets Browse T. S. Eliot Quotes II T.S. Eliot Poems - a collection of his poetry. T.S. Eliot Bibliography - a bibliography, including list of critical resources.

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/e/elio...tUycAPAEPxu.99

[Beautiful sky]

First impression was ILI, awhile back. Haven't thought about it since, until now.

T.S. ELIOT QUOTES

All dash to and fro in motor cars,Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T.S. ELIOT, The Waste Land Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. T.S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. T.S. ELIOT, Gerontion I journeyed to London, to the time kept City,Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.There I was told: we have too many churches,And too few chop-houses. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock The True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. T.S. ELIOT, The Hippopotamus Endless invention, endless experiment,Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness. T.S. ELIOT, The Rock I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The lawn Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn,The sad intangible who grieve and yearn.... T.S. ELIOT, To Walter de la Mare This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. ELIOT, The Hollow Men In my beginning is my end. T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker," Four Quartets War is not a life: it is a situation,One which may neither be ignored nor accepted. T.S. ELIOT, A Note on War Poetry I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. ELIOT, "Dante" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. ELIOT, preface, Transit of Venus Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral The soul of Man must quicken to creation. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. ELIOT, The Sacred Wood There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;There will be time to murder and create,And time for all the works and days of hands,That lift and drop a question on your plate;Time for you and time for me,And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions,Before the taking of a toast and tea. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The lot of man is ceaseless labor,Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. ELIOT, Tradition and the Individual Talent One thing you cannot know:The sudden extinction of every alternative,The unexpected crash of the iron cataract.You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.You only know what it is not to hope:You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you. T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. T. S. ELIOT, Time Magazine, Oct. 23, 1950 No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. T. S. ELIOT, The Music of Poetry When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? T. S. ELIOT, The Rock The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land Human kind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard;Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word. T. S. ELIOT, Ash-Wednesday Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock I grow old ... I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In life there is not time to grieve long. T. S. ELIOT, Murder in the Cathedral Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion Unreal City,Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T. S. ELIOT, Four Quartets Browse T. S. Eliot Quotes II T.S. Eliot Poems - a collection of his poetry. T.S. Eliot Bibliography - a bibliography, including list of critical resources.

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/e/elio...tUycAPAEPxu.99

my SEE friend's favourite poet

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I agree Aylen.