T. S. Eliot Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Smell Quotes

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Smell Quotes

Teach us to care and not to care

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Care Quotes , Ash Wednesday Quotes

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Order Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Done Quotes , Turns Quotes

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Blood Quotes , Ink Quotes

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

In my beginning is my end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Character Quotes

The journey, Not the destination matters.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Journey Quotes , Matter Quotes

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Depressing Quotes , Mediocrity Quotes

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Mean Quotes

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. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. 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? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Dust Quotes

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Immature Quotes , Mature Quotes

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Moments Quotes , Difficulty Quotes

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes , Soul Quotes

Where is the Life we lost in living?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Mind Love Quotes