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T. S. Eliot

(1888–1965)

U.S.-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic

“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

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source: Little Gidding in Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, 1971), 59.

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“Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.”

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source: “Ash-Wednesday,” in T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991), 86.

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.”

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source: “Little Gidding,” in The Waste Land and Other Poems (New York: Penguin, 2003), xxi.

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“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.”

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source: “Fragment of the Agon,” Sweeney Agonistes in The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952), 80–81.

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