T. S. Eliot Quotes About Age
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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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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.
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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
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