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T. S. Eliot

" In my beginning is my end. "

End , Beginning

related quotes

" The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. "

Living , Language , Communication , Fire

" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "

Poets

" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

Work , First

" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "

Right , Temptation , Reason , Wrong , Deed

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

Poets

" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

Religion , Literature , Politics

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

Poetry , Business , Emotions , Feelings

" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

Reality

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

Age , Life

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

Death , Thought

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

Coffee , Life

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

Will , Fear

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