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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
Music
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot
Knowledge
Information
This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot
Love
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Time
End
Exploration
First
Will
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
World
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
New year
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.
T. S. Eliot
Soul
Being
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Life
Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Living
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
Progress
Artist
Personality
Self
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
T. S. Eliot
Temple
Home is where one starts from.
T. S. Eliot
Home
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
Man
Old
Will
World
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Time
Help
Language
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
Trouble
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
Heart
Intention
Man