T.S. Eliot Quotes

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

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

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.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.

April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

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.

Our words have wings but fly not where we would.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

This love is silent.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

In my end is my beginning.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.