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" April is the cruellest month. "
T. S. Eliot
April
Month
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" In my beginning is my end. "
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" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "
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Tell
Blood
Public
" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "
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How
Know
" Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. "
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Listen
People
" We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. "
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Travel
Will
Know
" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "
T. S. Eliot
Temple
Homes
Shall
" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "
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Courage
Going
Go
" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "
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Coffee
Out
My Life
" Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. "
T. S. Eliot
Narrow
Negative
Nasty
" 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
Hope
Wrong
Waiting
" 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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Personality
Know
" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "
T. S. Eliot
Goes
Experience
Beyond
" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Changing
Help
" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "
T. S. Eliot
Important
World
Done
" 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. "
T. S. Eliot
Up
Emotions
Feelings
" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "
T. S. Eliot
Last
Reason
Right
" 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. "
T. S. Eliot
Believe
Think
Older
" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "
T. S. Eliot
Important
The Most Important
Possible
" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "
T. S. Eliot
Own
Ticket
Anything
" 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
You
Graduation
Know
" 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
Baby
You
Mother
" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "
T. S. Eliot
Birth
Different
Thought
" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "
T. S. Eliot
Thing
Put
Work
" Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. "
T. S. Eliot
Art
Quite
Same
" 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
Books
Write
" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "
T. S. Eliot
Today
Business
Crowds
" This love is silent. "
T. S. Eliot
Love
Love Is
Silent
" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "
T. S. Eliot
Information
Knowledge
Life
" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "
T. S. Eliot
Ready
You
Without