Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
