“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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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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“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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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He m...”
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“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
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“Home is where one starts from.”
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“Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.”
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“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
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“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
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“The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.”
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“You are the music while the music lasts.”
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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
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“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
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“So the lover must struggle for words.”
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“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
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“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
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“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
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“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.”
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“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
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“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”
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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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