T.S. Eliot: Trending quotes (page 5)

“There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.”

“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.”

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”

“Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care”

“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”

“I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.”

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”

“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”

“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”

“And 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 dust”

“I can connect
Nothing with nothing”

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”

“For you know only a heap of broken images”

“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”