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" The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. "
T. S. Eliot
Progress
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Artist
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" There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. "
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" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "
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" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "
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" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "
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" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "
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Moving
" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
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Mature
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" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "
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You
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" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "
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Changing
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" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "
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Graduation
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" My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. "
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Up And Down
Down
Greatest
" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "
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Today
Business
Crowds
" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "
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Different
Thought
" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "
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Going
Go
" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "
T. S. Eliot
Only
Brainy
World
" 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
" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. "
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Some
Writers
Editors
" Home is where one starts from. "
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Where
Home
Starts
" In my beginning is my end. "
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Beginning
End
" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "
T. S. Eliot
Dealt
Difficulties
Our
" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "
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Fear
You
Will
" 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
" Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. "
T. S. Eliot
Art
Quite
Same
" 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
" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. "
T. S. Eliot
Way
Bang
World
" 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
" You are the music while the music lasts. "
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While
Music
Lasts
" It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. "
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Struggle
Breath
" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "
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Know
" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "
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Out
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