T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past."
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"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past."
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."
T.S. Eliot
"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."
T.S. Eliot
"We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion;- The Hollow Men"
T.S. Eliot Poems: 1909-1925
"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."
T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
T.S. Eliot The Sacred Wood
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
T.S. Eliot
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"
T.S. Eliot
"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present."
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
"The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
T.S. Eliot
"“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.”"
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
"“Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”"
T.S. Eliot
"“So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.”"
T.S. Eliot
"“And would it have been worth it, after all,Would it have been worth while,After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -”"
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
"“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”"
T.S. Eliot
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T.S. Eliot The Rock
"“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.”"
T.S. Eliot
"“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”"
T.S. Eliot
"“April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.”"
T.S. Eliot The Waste Land
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