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Charles W. Eliot - From the Books category:
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. (Charles W. Eliot)
Charles W. Eliot - From the Books category:
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. (Charles W. Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Activity category:
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Activity category:
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Adventure category:
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Aging category:
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Anticipation category:
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Belief category:
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Children category:
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Children category:
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Commitment category:
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Critics category:
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desire category:
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desire category:
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desperation category:
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desperation category:
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Destiny category:
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Determination category:
Decide what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Determination category:
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Discipline category:
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Education category:
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Ego category:
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Ego category:
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Excellence category:
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Experience category:
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
There are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Friendship category:
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Friendship category:
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Future category:
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Generosity category:
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Genius category:
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Genius category:
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Greatness category:
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Growth category:
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Habit category:
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Happiness category:
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Humour category:
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Influence category:
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Intellect category:
His mind is furnished as hotels are, with everything for occasional and transient use. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Interpretation category:
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Life category:
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Life category:
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Loneliness category:
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Love category:
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Love category:
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Meaning category:
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Motivation category:
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Nature category:
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Obsession category:
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Optimism category:
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Performance category:
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Perseverance category:
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Perspective category:
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Pets category:
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Possibilities category:
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Problems category:
Consequences are unpitying. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Production category:
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Profession category:
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Progress category:
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Quotations category:
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Religion category:
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands; / He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Religion category:
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Responsibility category:
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Responsibility category:
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Rewards category:
The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Senses category:
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Silence category:
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Silence category:
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Talent category:
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent – like a carrier pigeon. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Timeliness category:
It is never too late to be what we might have been. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Truth category:
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Truth category:
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Understanding category:
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vanity category:
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vision category:
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vision category:
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Windows category:
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Wisdom category:
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Words category:
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Words category:
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Writing category:
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Writing category:
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. (George Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Accidents category:
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Accomplishment category:
To 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)
T. S. Eliot - From the Advice category:
- The Rock, 1934...
I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Aging category:
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Ambition category:
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Anxiety category:
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Appreciation category:
No poet, no artist of any sort, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Art category:
Art is the escape from personality. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Art category:
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Awareness category:
- The Family Reunion, 1939...
They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Beginning category:
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Beginning category:
Every moment is a fresh beginning. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Books category:
It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Business category:
Business today consists in persuading crowds. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Choices category:
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Composition category:
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Contemplation category:
- The Rock, 1934...
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Contrasts category:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Criticism category:
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. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Desire category:
That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Destiny category:
We must always take risks. That is our destiny. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Difficulty category:
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Drunkenness category:
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. / Resign yourself to be the fool you are. / You will find that you survive humiliation / And that's an experience of incalculable value. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Eccentricity category:
For some are sane and some are mad / And some are good and some are bad / And some are better, some are worse - / But all may be described in verse. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Editing category:
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Editing category:
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Effort category:
For us it is just the trying: all the rest is not our business. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Emotion category:
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Emotion category:
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, / Undisciplined squads of emotion. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Experience category:
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Experience category:
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. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Exploration category:
We shall not cease from exploration / And in the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Fantasy category:
I am moved by fancies that are curled /
Around these images, and cling: /
The notion of some infinitely gentle /
Infinitely suffering thing. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Fear category:
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. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Fire category:
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Growth category:
April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Hope category:
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, / For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Humanity category:
Human kind cannot bear very much reality. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Idealism category:
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Ideas category:
Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Illusion category:
Disillusion can become itself an illusion
if we rest in it. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Importance category:
-The Cocktail Party, 1949...
Half the harm that is done in this world / Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them... Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle / To think well of themselves. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Impossibilities category:
It is impossible to say just what I mean! (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Information category:
-The Rock, 1934...
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Intellect category:
There is no method but to be very intelligent. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Interpretation category:
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Journey category:
Footfalls echo in the memory, / Down the passage which we did not take, / Toward the door we never opened / Into the rose-garden. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Journey category:
Home is where one starts from. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Knowledge category:
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Knowledge category:
In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way
of ignorance. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Life category:
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Love category:
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, / But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Masters category:
In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Music category:
Music heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all, but you are the music / While the music lasts. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Optimism category:
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Passion category:
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Perfection category:
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Pets category:
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion; it is not an expression of the personality, but an escape from personality. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Poetry category:
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Poetry category:
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Poetry category:
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Possessions category:
In order to possess what you do not possess / You must go by the way of dispossession. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Progress category:
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Purpose category:
The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Questions category:
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Reality category:
Human kind / Cannot bear very much reality. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Religion category:
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Rewards category:
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Risk category:
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Rules category:
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Silence category:
This love is silent. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Silence category:
Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Simplicity category:
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Space category:
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Standards category:
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Struggle category:
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Success category:
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Symbols category:
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Technology category:
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. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Thought category:
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Time category:
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Time category:
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Tradition category:
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence... (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Tradition category:
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Truth category:
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Understanding category:
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Understanding category:
The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Uniqueness category:
All cases are unique and very similar to others. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Universe category:
Do I dare / Disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Unknowns category:
The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Words category:
My name is only an anagram of toilets. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Words category:
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Words category:
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Work category:
No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. (T. S. Eliot)
T. S. Eliot - From the Writing category:
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are what we know. (T. S. Eliot)
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