36 Quotations by T.S. Eliot
- 1. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging ...
- 2. Any religion...is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and h ...
- 3. For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I h ...
- 4. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- 5. Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
- 6. Human kind cannot bear much reality.
- 7. Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
- 8. Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
- 9. I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brou ...
- 10. If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers ...
- 11. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- 12. In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.
- 13. It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- 14. It is impossible to say just what I mean!
- 15. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important
- 16. Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv ...
- 17. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
- 18. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- 19. Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers.
- 20. Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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