“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
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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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“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
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“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
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“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
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“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”
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“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.”
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“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.”
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“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
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“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
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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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“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”
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“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
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“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
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“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...”
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“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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“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”
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“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
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“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
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