T. S. Eliot Quotes
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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This is the land which ye Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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Because I do not hope to knowThe infirm glory of the positive hourBecause I do not thinkBecause I know I shall not knowThe one veritable transitory powerBecause I cannot drinkThere, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again
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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag- It's so elegant So intelligent
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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The work of creation is never without travail