T. S. Eliot Quotes
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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.
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural - but little developed - aptitude for seriousness.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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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.
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.