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Quotations By T.S. Eliot


Decision
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Emotion
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.

Literature
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot

Time
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

Words
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.