At the still point, there the dance is.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Stillness Dancing

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Burnt Norton Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 2.

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Let us go then, you and I,
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Language
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Time
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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

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Paul Valéry
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Paradox Zen koan
Language
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Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

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I must be cruel only to be kind.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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End justifies the means Justifications and rationales Cruelty Kindness
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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
Paradox
Language
English
Time
1616 1610s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.