Best Thomas Stearns Eliot Lines
- Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. Break
- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. Design
- When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. Art
- An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. Author
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. Alone
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew… Always Worth
- Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. Bad
- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, Emotion
- People find a way in which they can say something. Find
- In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. Dispossession
- All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. All
- The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less. Age
- And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching All
- History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them,… Another Pattern
- In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Faint
- Old men ought to be explorers. Explorers
- If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable All
- At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted. Beach
- Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done Always Wanted
- Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. Cheese
- In the mountains, there you feel free. Feel
- Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. Allow
- The work of creation is never without travail. Creation
- It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having… Affected
- When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the… Forced
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