People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they… — 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
