T. S. Eliot Quotes
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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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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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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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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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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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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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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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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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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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There is no method but to be very intelligent.