With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
T.S. Eliot
Cats, Rule, Speak, Feline Behavior, Social Etiquette, Animal Wisdom
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“We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.” T.S. Eliot
Experience, Meaning, Missed, Life Insight, Existential Frustration, Philosophical Reflection
T.S. Eliot Experience, Meaning, Missed, Life Insight, Existential Frustration, Philosophical Reflection“And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.” T.S. Eliot
Time, Indecisions, Faces, Temporal Abundance, Life’s Complexity, Human Interaction
T.S. Eliot Time, Indecisions, Faces, Temporal Abundance, Life’s Complexity, Human Interaction“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.” T.S. Eliot
Wings, Air, Still, Poetic Metaphor, Spiritual Aspiration, Existential Paradox
T.S. Eliot Wings, Air, Still, Poetic Metaphor, Spiritual Aspiration, Existential Paradox“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.” T.S. Eliot
Read, Night, Winter, Personal Habit, Seasonal Migration, Literary Lifestyle
T.S. Eliot Read, Night, Winter, Personal Habit, Seasonal Migration, Literary Lifestyle“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.” T.S. Eliot
Rules, Violate, Observe, Social Norms, Personal Growth, Rebellious Wisdom
T.S. Eliot Rules, Violate, Observe, Social Norms, Personal Growth, Rebellious Wisdom“Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.” T.S. Eliot
Fear, Courage, Virtues, Moral Complexity, Human Nature, Poetic Metaphor
T.S. Eliot Fear, Courage, Virtues, Moral Complexity, Human Nature, Poetic Metaphor“Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done.” T.S. Eliot
Wanted, Done, Turn, Personal Growth, Motivational Advice, Life Philosophy
T.S. Eliot Wanted, Done, Turn, Personal Growth, Motivational Advice, Life Philosophy“Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.” T.S. Eliot
Writing, Everyday, Engine, Creative Process, Artistic Discipline, Productivity Advice
T.S. Eliot Writing, Everyday, Engine, Creative Process, Artistic Discipline, Productivity Advice“Hurry up, please, it's time.” T.S. Eliot
Hurry, Time, Please, Temporal Urgency, Social Observation, Poetic Refrain
T.S. Eliot Hurry, Time, Please, Temporal Urgency, Social Observation, Poetic Refrain“Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.” T.S. Eliot
Key, Prison, Thinking, Mental Limitation, Psychological Constraint, Personal Perspective
T.S. Eliot Key, Prison, Thinking, Mental Limitation, Psychological Constraint, Personal Perspective“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
Intention, Heart, Wickedness, Moral Complexity, Human Nature, Spiritual Struggle
T.S. Eliot Intention, Heart, Wickedness, Moral Complexity, Human Nature, Spiritual Struggle“Books. Cats. Life is good.” T.S. Eliot
Books, Cats, Life, Simple Pleasures, Personal Contentment, Literary Appreciation
T.S. Eliot Books, Cats, Life, Simple Pleasures, Personal Contentment, Literary Appreciation“There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.” T.S. Eliot
Water, Bad, Better, Environmental Crisis, Existential Necessity, Poetic Repetition
T.S. Eliot Water, Bad, Better, Environmental Crisis, Existential Necessity, Poetic Repetition“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.” T.S. Eliot
Women, Michelangelo, Room, Social Observation, Artistic Discourse, Cultural Commentary
T.S. Eliot Women, Michelangelo, Room, Social Observation, Artistic Discourse, Cultural Commentary“In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.” T.S. Eliot
Possess, Dispossession, Way, Paradoxical Wisdom, Spiritual Insight, Philosophical Advice
T.S. Eliot Possess, Dispossession, Way, Paradoxical Wisdom, Spiritual Insight, Philosophical Advice“You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.” T.S. Eliot
Penetrating, Credit, Disaster, Self-deprecation, Social Perception, Personal Humility
T.S. Eliot Penetrating, Credit, Disaster, Self-deprecation, Social Perception, Personal Humility“Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.” T.S. Eliot
Blasphemy, Belief, Atheist, Religious Insight, Spiritual Contradiction, Cultural Commentary
T.S. Eliot Blasphemy, Belief, Atheist, Religious Insight, Spiritual Contradiction, Cultural Commentary“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” T.S. Eliot
Emotion, Expression, Introspection, Detachment, Creativity, Identity
T.S. Eliot Emotion, Expression, Introspection, Detachment, Creativity, Identity