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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.


T.S. Eliot

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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HOWARD NEMEROV T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has fe...
PENELOPE MITCHELL Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There is little you can do about the wild birds, especially the migratory ones, it's very difficult ...
ALBERT OSTERHAUS The most important thing was for us to be as efficient as possible. And I thought that's what we wer...
HEATH SCHROYER The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possib...
PIERRE BONNARD Vern's got a great attitude. We support him. The most important thing is to get him the best possibl...
WAYNE KRIVSKY I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m...
NORAH JONES The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The most important thing for me is making the quarter as simple as possible but distinct. Some of th...
GREGORY HUNT It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tols...
MONA SIMPSON What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I do appreciate that the most important thing as a manager is to get good results.
STUART PEARCE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you durin...
MARIO ANDRETTI The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...
JONAH LEHRER That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.
ERIC CHURCH I told Lee Peng Wee, the important thing is to free the hostages. I don't care who was responsible f...
ROBERT AVENTAJADO When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
SALLUST I think that certainly FEMA bent over backwards to try to make this very specialized request happen ...
BUTCH KINERNEY As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...
JOHN MCCAIN I have to pay attention to every swimmer. Every swimmer is important. The first thing I need to do i...
DAN LAKE Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEATRICE ARTHUR I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime...
CARL SANDBURG I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else i...
YOKO ONO Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most im...
PEP GUARDIOLA The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving th...
BRENNAN MANNING Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
WAYNE HUIZENGA Every song is different, ... If they come fast that's wonderful. But if they don't, that's OK, too. ...
ALLEN SHAMBLIN Serving is so important, ... For any team, serve receiving is the hardest thing to do, so a good ser...
SARAH ROSE In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
ZINEDINE ZIDANE The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most im...
SARAH PARCAK My family is the most important thing to me.
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE One of the most important thing is that you need to write down your goals and plans
SUNDAY ADELAJA The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
DAVID SOUL The most important thing to do is really listen.
ITZHAK PERLMAN Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. A...
SANIA MIRZA Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
IVY LEE No goals conceded is the most important thing for us. If we want to do the same thing as last year w...
DIDIER DROGBA Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The most important thing is a possible aid package from the International Monetary Fund.
BRUNO SERAPHIM As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most eff...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
JOHN WOODEN The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
MANNY PACQUIAO It is important that young people begin saving for the future as early as possible.
ALBERT WYNN The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
DAVID SOUL When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
ALEXANDRE AJA The room is the most important thing about recording.
ADRIAN SMITH The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
BEBE REXHA It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.
JESSE LIVERMORE The most important thing we take care of is your immediate need, your transportation. You probably s...
VIC TARASIK Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA The most important thing is to stay positive.
SAKU KOIVU The most important thing is to make sure this little girl has a headstone.
LARRY STEACH Our schedule is very challenging. The early portion of the schedule will help us to identify our str...
ERNIE NESTOR That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible o...
NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all...
CHARLIE WHITE I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yo...
MIKE DIRNT The most important thing to do is education, not only for the population at large but also for peopl...
DR. CLAUDETTE BROOKS Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most impor...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN This part of the house is about 150 years old, so we tried to do as little as possible to maintain i...
JOE HUTTON The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement...
CANDACE BUSHNELL As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the d...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON As a new program, it's important for us to establish a high level of ambition. It's a great thing fo...
HARVEY HIX The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove ...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
PAUL JOHNSON Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
KURT LODER Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any me...
RUFI THORPE It's the same thing you try to do at home except they probably get multiplied by 10 when you go on t...
GREG GARD As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE The single most important thing you can do for your health is to give up animal products.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, ei...
KAKI KING Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Nothing has shifted. Israel is still about one thing, and that is about how do you take as much Pale...
MICHAEL TARAZI There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possibl...
AARON PEIRSOL The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my ...
ERIC STONESTREET The most important thing is to not waste your money.
GARETH BALE The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
PETER DRUCKER The most important thing in the world is family and love.
JOHN WOODEN I'm trying to spend as little as possible,
DAVID GREEN Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right t...
SAMANTHA STOSUR There's nothing like winning a state championship. It's a challenge to do it. The most important thi...
CLANCY NORRIS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

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T.S. ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language
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T.S. ELIOT What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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T.S. ELIOT My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
T.S. ELIOT I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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T.S. ELIOT An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolong...
T.S. ELIOT Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
T.S. ELIOT Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is th...
T.S. ELIOT Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
T.S. ELIOT There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
T.S. ELIOT In my end is my beginning.
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T.S. ELIOT Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
T.S. ELIOT Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T.S. ELIOT No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
...
T.S. ELIOT The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T.S. ELIOT There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S. ELIOT If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. ELIOT Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait ...
T.S. ELIOT April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desir...
T.S. ELIOT These fragments I have shored against my ruins
T.S. ELIOT Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisi...
T.S. ELIOT Will the veiled sister pray for
Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, T.S. ELIOT We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive whe...
T.S. ELIOT Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
T.S. ELIOT Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
T.S. ELIOT What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
T.S. ELIOT It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
T.S. ELIOT There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within ...
T.S. ELIOT There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or...
T.S. ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
T.S. ELIOT Here, said she, / Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor.
T.S. ELIOT I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T.S. ELIOT One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
T.S. ELIOT I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T.S. ELIOT Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. ELIOT I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T.S. ELIOT War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
T.S. ELIOT Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
T.S. ELIOT It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lov...
T.S. ELIOT April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirrin...
T.S. ELIOT For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T.S. ELIOT No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; / Am an attendant lord.
T.S. ELIOT To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is eno...
T.S. ELIOT So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I...
T.S. ELIOT I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T.S. ELIOT And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
T.S. ELIOT It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T.S. ELIOT Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
T.S. ELIOT The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...
T.S. ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
T.S. ELIOT So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit
T.S. ELIOT Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
T.S. ELIOT And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And a hundred visions and revisions
T.S. ELIOT Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
T.S. ELIOT I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to m...
T.S. ELIOT This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. ELIOT Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the publ...
T.S. ELIOT In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
T.S. ELIOT that which is only living
Can only die
T.S. ELIOT What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,
Long hoped for calm, the autumnal seren...
T.S. ELIOT Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; ...
T.S. ELIOT At the still point, there the dance is.
T.S. ELIOT What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication<...
T.S. ELIOT I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and i...
T.S. ELIOT Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T.S. ELIOT Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the musi...
T.S. ELIOT A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
T.S. ELIOT All time is unreedemable.
T.S. ELIOT You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it...
T.S. ELIOT Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear...
T.S. ELIOT The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T.S. ELIOT There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same h...
T.S. ELIOT The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presenc...
T.S. ELIOT Only through time time is conquered
T.S. ELIOT I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
T.S. ELIOT time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which i...
T.S. ELIOT We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive whe...
T.S. ELIOT So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years-
Twenty years largely wasted, the year...
T.S. ELIOT The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues ...
T.S. ELIOT Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contain...
T.S. ELIOT Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
T.S. ELIOT Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, in...
T.S. ELIOT Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S. ELIOT If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
T.S. ELIOT You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find i...
T.S. ELIOT My name is only an anagram of toilets.
T.S. ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice....
T.S. ELIOT The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble.
T.S. ELIOT When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi...
T.S. ELIOT What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
T.S. ELIOT This love is silent.
T.S. ELIOT Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form ...
T.S. ELIOT You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S. ELIOT If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers ...
T.S. ELIOT The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passage ways.
T.S. ELIOT Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
T.S. ELIOT Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T.S. ELIOT Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv...
T.S. ELIOT The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our se...
T.S. ELIOT Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T.S. ELIOT Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never open...
T.S. ELIOT Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T.S. ELIOT Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
T.S. ELIOT In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. ELIOT It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear dece...
T.S. ELIOT Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and pe...
T.S. ELIOT What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
T.S. ELIOT I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids/Sprouting despondently at area gates.
T.S. ELIOT Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.
T.S. ELIOT The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
T.S. ELIOT The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
T.S. ELIOT We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t...
T.S. ELIOT The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. ELIOT Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
T.S. ELIOT And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or yo...
T.S. ELIOT I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarousl...
T.S. ELIOT Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at th...
T.S. ELIOT After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retro...
T.S. ELIOT At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the ba...
T.S. ELIOT The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.
T.S. ELIOT People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T.S. ELIOT Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea...
T.S. ELIOT If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it ...
T.S. ELIOT But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in ...
T.S. ELIOT Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is reall...
T.S. ELIOT With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
Don’t speak till you are spoken to.
Myself, I do ...
T.S. ELIOT Before a Cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem...
T.S. ELIOT The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows,
Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;
I...
T.S. ELIOT The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may...
T.S. ELIOT The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T.S. ELIOT And we must think no further of you.
T.S. ELIOT We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well...
T.S. ELIOT The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we li...
T.S. ELIOT Unreal City, / Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, / A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, /...
T.S. ELIOT If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unsp...
T.S. ELIOT For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!
T.S. ELIOT To country people Cows are mild,
And flee from any stick they throw;
But I’m a timid tow...
T.S. ELIOT We have only to conquer
Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Now is the triumph...
T.S. ELIOT Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke ...
T.S. ELIOT One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in t...
T.S. ELIOT The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and...
T.S. ELIOT Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorati...
T.S. ELIOT Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.
T.S. ELIOT I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
T.S. ELIOT Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences...
T.S. ELIOT Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Mar...
T.S. ELIOT The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human ...
T.S. ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
T.S. ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
T.S. ELIOT The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to ...
T.S. ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
T.S. ELIOT All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S. ELIOT We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair w...
T.S. ELIOT The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
T.S. ELIOT We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
T.S. ELIOT Human kind cannot bear much reality.
T.S. ELIOT If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
T.S. ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
T.S. ELIOT To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
T.S. ELIOT Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
T.S. ELIOT That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
T.S. ELIOT Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
T.S. ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
T.S. ELIOT Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w...
T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan...
T.S. ELIOT The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. ELIOT Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
T.S. ELIOT I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T.S. ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T.S. ELIOT We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
T.S. ELIOT There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
T.S. ELIOT We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine
T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
T.S. ELIOT It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T.S. ELIOT We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT