T.S. Eliot: Trending quotes (page 6)

“This love is silent.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“In my end is my beginning.”

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.”

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”

“Footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden. My words echo
thus, in your mind”

“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.”

“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it”

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”

“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”

“If time and space, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we.
So why, Love, should we ever pray
To live a century?
The butterfly that lives a day
Has lived eternity.”

“Where is the Life we lost in living?”

“He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.”

“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”

“time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”