T. S. EliotOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.372Reading
T. S. EliotO Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems … ▶361Love
T. S. EliotArt serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap… ▶373SadnessTruth
T. S. EliotMoving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, … ▶373Thought
T. S. EliotAmbition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. ✨ T. S. El… ▶373Truth
T. S. EliotAnd I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of du… ▶362Humanity
T. S. EliotThe dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the … ▶373HopeHumanityLove
T. S. EliotA prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.351LifeReading
T. S. EliotWith cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses, p.33, … ▶352Truth
T. S. EliotThe purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist.… ▶352HumanityThought
T. S. EliotThis is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. ✨ The Hollow Men l. 95 (1925)341Humor
T. S. EliotWhen war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money… ▶363Truth
T. S. EliotWould it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question ✨ T.S. El… ▶352Time
T. S. EliotEvery moment is a fresh beginning. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.938, Faber & Faber375Time
T. S. EliotWith Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Rese… ▶364ThoughtTruth
T. S. EliotI am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. ✨ John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: … ▶331Reflection
T. S. EliotShape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lo… ▶375Death
T. S. EliotA toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ✨ Knowledge and Experience … ▶354LifeLovePhilosophy
T. S. EliotThe only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the f… ▶321LifeTruth
T. S. EliotMost contemporary novels are not really written. They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their dail… ▶354HumanityLifePolitics
T. S. EliotWho is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside yo… ▶354Thought
T. S. EliotThe Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.376Life
T. S. EliotMen dislike being awakened from their death in life.376DeathLife
T. S. EliotShall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think … ▶354LoveThought
T. S. EliotHell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ✨ The Cocktail Par… ▶343Death
T. S. EliotAt the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two liv… ▶321Humanity
T. S. EliotFriendship should be more than biting time can sever. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt333Time
T. S. EliotTo do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ✨ T. S. Eliot (1986). The Use of Poetry and the U… ▶333DeathLifeReflection
T. S. EliotAt the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not… ▶333HopeTime
T. S. EliotBefore a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Vol… ▶344Hope
