“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915, is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.[4] It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Order of Merit in 1948. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
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“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
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“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his env...”
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“The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.”
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“The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.”
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“In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.”
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
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“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.”
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“What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.”
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“Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?”
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“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
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“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”
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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
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“One starts an action simply because one must do something.”
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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
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“Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.”
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“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environm...”
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“Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.”
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