T.S. Eliot: Trending quotes (page 8)

“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.”

“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”

“The still point in a turning world.”

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”

“And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And a hundred visions and revisions”

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.”

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

“Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”

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

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”

“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”

“For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!”

“Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.”

“Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together.”

“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”

“All time is unreedemable.”

“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”

“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”