Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. — 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
