Famous Quotes by T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
- I shall not want Honour in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney
And have talk with... More
- I shall not want Society in Heaven,
Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride;
Her anecdotes... More
- The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are... More
- Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech More
- The breathing in unison ... More
- No peevish winter wind shall chill
No sullen tropic sun shall wither
The roses in the... More
- Issues from the hand of time the simple soul
Irresolute and selfish, misshapen,... More
- Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs,
Rising or falling, grasping at kisses and... More
- The heavy burden of the growing soul
Perplexes and offends more, day by day;
Week by... More
- War is not a life: it is a situation,
One which may neither be ignored nor accepted. More
- But the abstract conception
Of private experience at its greatest intensity
Becoming... More
- Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together. More
- In the path of an action merely typical
To create the universal, originate a symbol
Out... More
- It seems just possible that a poem might happen
To a very young man: but a poem is not... More
- Where is the point at which the merely individual
Explosion breaks...? More
- The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying. More
- Redeem
The time. Redeem.
The unread vision in the higher dream
While jewelled... More
- Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn More
- Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word. More
- And the bones sang chirping
With the burden of the grasshopper, More
- Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice More
- And pray to God to have mercy upon us
And I pray that I may forget
These matters that... More
- Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied More
- Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour More
- Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness.
There is no life in them. As I am... More
- Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,
Lilac and brown hair; More
- (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) More
- No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among... More
- Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to... More
- Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole More
- Who shall remember my house, where shall live my children’s
children
When the time of... More
- Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and
The winter sun creeps by the snow... More
- I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and... More
- The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet—
He was aware that this sort of... More
- And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees
Who... More
- So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we... More
- A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand ... More
- A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of... More
- Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought... More
- Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality. More
- Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we... More
- Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which... More
- The Word in the desert
Is most attacked by voices of temptation,
The crying shadow in the... More
- Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. More
- the roses
Had the look of flowers that are looked at. More
- Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip,... More
- Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
Inoperancy of the... More
- Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar... More
- Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. More
- Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words,... More
- Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future... More
- human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have... More
- O quick quick quick, quick hear the song sparrow,
Swamp sparrow, fox sparrow, vesper... More
- All are delectable. Sweet sweet sweet
But resign this land at the end, resign it
To its... More
- The lot of man is ceaseless labour,
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or... More
- When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
And settled all the inconvenient... More
- In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play... More
- There are those who would build the Temple,
And those who prefer that the Temple should not... More
- What life have you if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community, More
- Many are engaged in writing books and printing them,
Many desire to see their names in... More
- The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
Out of the formless stone, when the artist united... More
- And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.
O my soul, be prepared for the coming... More
- A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time,... More
- O Father we welcome your words,
And we will take heart for the future,
Remembering the past. More
- The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.... More
- I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign... More
- The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do
But stand... More
- And if blood of Martyrs is to flow on the steps
We must first build the steps;
And if the... More
- The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
And thy temple have they defiled. More
- Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And of moderate vice
When men will not lay down the... More
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just... More
- And in spite of all the dishonour,
The broken standards, the broken lives,
The broken... More
- O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is... More
- I say to you: Make perfect your will.
I say: take no thought of the harvest,
But only of... More
- There is work together
A Church for all
And a job for each
Every man to his work. More
- Waste and void. Waste and void. And darkness on the face of the deep.
Has the Church failed... More
- No man has hired us
With pocketed hands
And lowered faces
We stand about in open... More
- And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt... More
- And they came to an end, a dead end stirred with a flicker of life,
And they came to the... More
- It is hard for those who have never known persecution,
And who have never known a... More
- So they built as men must build
With the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other. More
- The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings... More
- Nor does the family even move about together,
But every son would have his motor... More
- The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to... More
- And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one... More
- Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?
She tells them of Life and... More
- Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.... More
- Out of the slimy mud of words, out of the sleet and hail of verbal imprecisions,
Approximate... More
- Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in... More
- Thus your fathers were made
Fellow citizens of the saints, of the household of GOD, being... More
- Though you forget the way to the Temple,
There is one who remembers the way to your... More
- The eastern light our spires touch at morning,
The light that slants upon our western doors... More
- The great snake lies ever half awake, at the bottom of the pit of the world, curled
In folds... More
- “... It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light... More
- “With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
... More
- “You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our... More
- Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite... More
- Phlébas, le Phénicien, pendant quinze jours noyé,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la... More
- Cependant, ce fut jadis un bel homme, de haute taille. More
- Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human... More
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