T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not."
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Quartets
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T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience."
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"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
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"And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching"
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"A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)"
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"Only through time time is conquered"
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"And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end."
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"The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled."
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