T. S. Eliot Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
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.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
These are only hints an guesses ... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
For history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England.
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.