T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

"For I have known them all already, known them allโ€”Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
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"For I have known them all already, known them allโ€”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
"โ€œTime present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.โ€"
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
"โ€œLight Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œSo 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.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œAnd 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? -โ€"
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
"โ€œPoetry 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.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œTime 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.โ€"
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
"โ€œGenuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œApril is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.โ€"
T.S. Eliot The Waste Land
"โ€œDo I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œThis is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.โ€"
T.S. Eliot
"โ€œWe 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 Menโ€"
T.S. Eliot Poems: 1909-1925
"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."
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
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