Best Thomas Stearns Eliot Wisdom
- The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side… Bore
- A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. Book
- In the life of one man, never The same time returns. Change
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… Author
- Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings… Creative
- Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… Activities
- Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. Disillusion
- Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. Envious
- Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. Altered
- The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to… Comes Less
- The darkness declares the glory of the light. Darkness
- Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love. Compels
- The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. Absorbed
- I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. Boxer
- Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions… Age
- The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Human
- The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. Depress
- The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. Difference
- It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to… Appreciate
- You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster. Account
- It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are,… Funny
- I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. Admiration
- Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. Garden
- With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of… Equivalent
- Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. Beneath
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