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
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause — 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
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though… — 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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image