T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."
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"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."
T. S. Eliot
"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
T. S. Eliot
"This love is silent."
T. S. Eliot
"For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."
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
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
T. S. Eliot
"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
T. S. Eliot
"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better."
T. S. Eliot
"I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers."
T. S. Eliot
"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."
T. S. Eliot
"April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain."
T. S. Eliot
"April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain."
T. S. Eliot
"Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
T. S. Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot
"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution."
T. S. Eliot
"Human kind cannot bear very much reality."
T. S. Eliot
"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
T. S. Eliot
"The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
T. S. Eliot
"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."
T. S. Eliot
"When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again."
T. S. Eliot
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