The purpose of all literature is to make the reader see and feel and understand himself and the world.
- T.S. Eliot
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Poetry is not an expression of emotion and personality, but rather an escape from both.
T.S. Eliot
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
— T.S. Eliot
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Ok but wait the reason Lokis are so interested in theatre & Shakespeare & literature etc (fiction in general) is because their prime variant is the God of Stories 😭
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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.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
T.S. Eliot, Quartet No. 1: Burnt Norton, from Four Quartets
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‘He who was living is now dead / We who were living are now dying / With a little patience’
—t.s. eliot, “the wasteland”
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..."anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"...
~T.S. Eliot
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
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The purpose of all literature is to make the reader see and feel and understand himself and the world.
T.S. Eliot
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I have heard mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see."
I smile, of course,
And go on drinking tea.
T.S. Eliot
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before the Taking of a Toast and Tea
From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
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The river is within us, the sea is all about us.
~ T. S. Eliot
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