T.S. Eliot Quotes

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.