T.S. Eliot Quotes

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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.

The world turns and the world changes,
But one thing does not change.
In all of my years, one thing does not change,
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all -
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

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

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

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

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?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?