Quote: In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: I will show you fear in a handful of dust. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: 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 -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: You are the music while the music lasts. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: 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. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]
Quote: It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. [Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot]