T. S. Eliot Quotes
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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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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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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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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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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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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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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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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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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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In my beginning is my end.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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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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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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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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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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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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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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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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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