Thomas Eliot ,quotes

The sense of wellbeing! Its of...

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

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The darkness declares the glor...

The darkness declares the glory of the light.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

Love compels cruelty To those ...

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

The majority of mankind is laz...

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

I was too slow a mover to be a...

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

Maturing as a poet means matur...

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

The majority of poems one outg...

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

The overwhelming pressure of m...

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

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The difference between being a...

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

It's harder to confess the sin...

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

You must not on any account gi...

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

It is not enough to understand...

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

I suspect that in our loathing...

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

What a poem means is as much w...

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

If one has to earn a living, t...

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

Stand on the highest pavement ...

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

With a poem you can say 'I got...

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

Webster was much possessed by ...

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Thomas Eliot 03.03.2018 03:03:03 700 quotes

Where there is no temple there...

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

Thomas Eliot 19.07.2011 02:36:46 700 quotes

Where is the Life we have lost...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Thomas Eliot 19.07.2011 02:36:40 700 quotes

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