Best Thomas Stearns Eliot Quotations
- They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several… Awake
- A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light… Baby
- The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid… Agamemnon
- Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past. Beyond
- Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I… Beach
- After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. Ambition
- At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I… Back Turn
- There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. Best
- When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are… Amalgamating
- A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;… Aim
- The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. Chief
- All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. All
- A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go. Cannot Tell
- We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… Active
- The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. Church
- The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice… Analyze
- We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value… Applied
- At the still point, there the dance is. Beautiful
- A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep… Cold
- There will be time to murder and create. Create
- But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the… Bright
- Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street. End
- Hurry up, please, its time. Hurry
- And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a… Bald
- Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. Adventure
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