T.S Eliot Quotes

Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...
T.S Eliot
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.
T.S Eliot
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
T.S Eliot
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
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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.
T.S Eliot
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
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Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
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No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
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Poetry is a mug's game.
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S Eliot
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
T.S Eliot
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T.S Eliot
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T.S Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S Eliot
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T.S Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
T.S Eliot
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T.S Eliot
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S Eliot
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
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Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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In my beginning is my end.
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You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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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.
T.S Eliot
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
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Thus with most careful devotionThus with precise attentionTo detail, interfering preparationOf that which is already preparedMen tighten the knot of confusionInto perfect misunderstanding.
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This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
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A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)
T.S Eliot