T.S. Eliot Quotes

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

At the still point, there the dance is.

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.