--- title: "7 Ts Eliot Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Ts Eliot quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Ts Eliot sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/jacob-rothschild-57670_admirer_my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-grea_182085.jpg" --- > [My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-rothschild/my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-great-friend-of-ts-eliot-duncan/) [Jacob Rothschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-rothschild/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/jacob-rothschild-57670_admirer_my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-grea_182085.jpg) > [When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olga-tokarczuk/when-i-was-a-teenager-i-fell-in-love-with-ts-eliot/) [Olga Tokarczuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olga-tokarczuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/olga-tokarczuk-6444_eliot_when-i-was-a-teenager-i-fell-in-love-wit_242366.jpg) > [“Sometimes I think my ability to concentrate is being nibbled away by the internet; other times I think it's being gulped down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentrate-is-being-nibbled-away-by/) [Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-dyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/geoff-dyer-8822_books_sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentr_900632.jpg) > [It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-nicholls/it-would-be-inappropiate-undignified-at-38-to-conduct-friendships-or/) [David Nicholls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-nicholls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/david-nicholls-873_affair_it-would-be-inappropiate-undignified-at_1122405.png) > [The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-writers-we-tend-to-universally-admire-like-beckett-or-kafka-or-ts/) [John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/192/john-updike-396_admire_the-writers-we-tend-to-universally-admir_1218468.png) > [What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alanis-morissette/what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive-at-the-place-where-you/) [Alanis Morissette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alanis-morissette/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/alanis-morissette-1074_able_what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive_1503882.jpg) > [“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/travel-is-fatal-to-prejudice-bigotry-and-narrow-mindedness-and-many-3/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/mark-twain-22_narrow-mindedness_travel-is-fatal-to-prejudice-bigotry-and_2529207.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ts-eliot/#itemlist", "name": "Ts Eliot Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacob Rothschild" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-rothschild/my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-great-friend-of-ts-eliot-duncan/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/jacob-rothschild-57670_admirer_my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-grea_182085.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/jacob-rothschild-57670_admirer_my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-grea_182085.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/jacob-rothschild-57670_admirer_my-mother-was-a-bloomsbury-figure-a-grea_182085.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. 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In those quaint days before the internet, once you made it to your desk there wasn't much to distract you. You could sit there working or you could just sit there. Now you sit down and there's a universe of possibilities – many of them obscurely relevant to the work you should be getting on with – to tempt you. To think that I can be sitting here, trying to write something about Ingmar Bergman and, a moment later, on the merest whim, can be watching a clip from a Swedish documentary about Don Cherry – that is a miracle (albeit one with a very potent side-effect, namely that it's unlikely I'll ever have the patience to sit through an entire Bergman film again). Then there's the outsourcing of memory. From the age of 16, I got into the habit of memorising passages of poetry and compiling detailed indexes in the backs of books of prose. So if there was a passage I couldn't remember, I would spend hours going through my books, seeking it out. Now, in what TS Eliot, with great prescience, called \"this twittering world\", I just google the key phrase of the half-remembered quote. Which is great, but it's drained some of the purpose from my life. Exactly the same thing has happened now that it's possible to get hold of out-of-print books instantly on the web. That's great too. But one of the side incentives to travel was the hope that, in a bookstore in Oregon, I might finally track down a book I'd been wanting for years. All of this searching and tracking down was immensely time-consuming – but only in the way that being alive is time-consuming.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Geoff Dyer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentrate-is-being-nibbled-away-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/geoff-dyer-8822_books_sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentr_900632.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/geoff-dyer-8822_books_sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentr_900632.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/geoff-dyer-8822_books_sometimes-i-think-my-ability-to-concentr_900632.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes I think my ability to concentrate is being nibbled away by the internet; other times I think it's…” — Geoff Dyer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? 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To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alanis Morissette" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alanis-morissette/what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive-at-the-place-where-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/alanis-morissette-1074_able_what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive_1503882.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/alanis-morissette-1074_able_what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive_1503882.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/alanis-morissette-1074_able_what-s-that-line-from-ts-eliot-to-arrive_1503882.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What's that line from TS Eliot? 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