T. S. Eliot Quotes
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
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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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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.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
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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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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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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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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of
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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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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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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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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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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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In my beginning is my end.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.