T. S. Eliot Quotes
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih
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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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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.
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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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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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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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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 fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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In my beginning is my end.
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Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.