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Explore the brilliant and often melancholic world of T. S. Eliot through a collection of his most famous and thought-provoking quotes. Discover insights into life, art, and the human condition from one of the 20th century's greatest poets. This compilation also touches on themes explored by other literary giants like William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia Woolf.

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00:00April is the cruelest month, breathing lilacs out of the deadland, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring
00:08rain.
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00:14I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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00:22This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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00:32Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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00:41Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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00:50For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
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01:02Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
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01:11What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning.
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01:22The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility, humility is endless.
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01:33Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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01:49Do I dare disturb the universe?
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01:57I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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02:06Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the shadow.
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02:43Old men ought to be explorers here and there does not matter.
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02:53We had the experience but missed the meaning.
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03:02Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into
03:07the rose garden.
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03:14It is impossible to say just what I mean.
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03:22After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
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